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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§262g Human nutrition in developing countries and United States assistance policies with international financial institutions; declaration of policy

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 7— - INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC. › § 262g

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Congress requires the United States, when using its votes at international development banks and funds, to fight hunger and malnutrition and to help developing countries grow their economies. Aid should go to countries that are improving their own farming and to projects that meet local food and nutrition needs. U.S. representatives must oppose loans or other financial help to start or expand exports of palm oil, sugar, or citrus if that help would harm U.S. producers of the same or similar crops.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §262g

Foreign Relations and Intercourse — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The Congress declares it to be the policy of the United States, in connection with its voice and vote in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Fund, the Asian Development Fund, and the Asian Development Bank, to combat hunger and malnutrition and to encourage economic development in the developing countries, with emphasis on assistance to those countries that are determined to improve their own agricultural production, by seeking to channel assistance for agriculturally related development to projects that would aid in fulfilling domestic food and nutrition needs and in alleviating hunger and malnutrition in the recipient country. The United States representatives to the institutions named in this section shall oppose any loan or other financial assistance for establishing or expanding production for export of palm oil, sugar, or citrus crops if such loan or assistance will cause injury to United States producers of the same, similar, or competing agricultural commodity.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1981—Pub. L. 97–35 redesignated subsec. (a) as entire section and struck out subsec. (b) which related to an annual report to Congress on the progress towards achieving the goals of this section.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1981 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 97–35 effective Aug. 13, 1981, see section 1372 of Pub. L. 97–35, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 290i of this title.

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 3, 1977, see section 1001 of Pub. L. 95–118, set out as a note under section 282i of this title.

Reference

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 262g

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73