§2724 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of State can charge people, companies, or organizations (but not U.S. government agencies) a fee to cover the real or expected cost of commercial services the State Department provides at U.S. posts overseas when those services are within its authority. That fee can only be charged in countries where the Department of Commerce does not provide similar fee-based commercial services. Money collected must be put into the State Department’s accounts to offset the cost of those services. Those funds may be used until September 30 of the fiscal year after the year they were deposited.

Title 22, §2724

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(a)(1)Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary of State is authorized to charge a fee to cover the actual or estimated cost of providing any person, firm or organization (other than agencies of the United States Government) with commercial services at posts abroad on matters within the authority of the Department of State.

(2)The authority of this section may be exercised only in countries where the Department of Commerce does not perform commercial services for which it collects fees.

(b)Funds collected under the authority of subsection (a) shall be deposited as an offsetting collection to any Department of State appropriation to recover the costs of providing commercial services. Funds deposited under this subsection shall remain available for obligation through September 30 of the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the funds were deposited.

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Amendments

1998—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105–277 inserted at end “Funds deposited under this subsection shall remain available for obligation through September 30 of the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the funds were deposited.”

§2724 Fees for commercial services

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Title 22, §2724

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