Title 22Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§2770a Exchange of training and related support

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 39— - ARMS EXPORT CONTROL › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II–C— - EXCHANGE OF TRAINING AND RELATED SUPPORT › § 2770a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President may give training and support to the military and civilian defense personnel of friendly foreign countries or international organizations. A Secretary of a military department must provide the training. Support can include transport, food, health care, logistics, and use of facilities and equipment. The foreign country or organization must agree to give comparable training back to U.S. personnel under that Secretary within a reasonable time, no more than one year. If it does not, it must repay the United States the full cost. The President must set rules for the program. By February 1 each year, the President must report to Congress on the prior fiscal year's work. The report must show the estimated full cost to the United States for each country or organization and the estimated value of what each provided to the United States.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §2770a

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(a)Subject to subsection (b), the President may provide training and related support to military and civilian defense personnel of a friendly foreign country or an international organization. Such training and related support shall be provided by a Secretary of a military department and may include the provision of transportation, food services, health services, and logistics and the use of facilities and equipment.
(b)Training and related support may be provided under this section only pursuant to an agreement or other arrangement providing for the provision by the recipient foreign country or international organization, on a reciprocal basis, of comparable training and related support to military and civilian personnel under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the military department providing the training and related support under this section. Such reciprocal training and related support must be provided within a reasonable period of time (which may not be more than one year) of the provision of training and related support by the United States. To the extent that a foreign country or international organization to which training and related support is provided under this section does not provide such comparable training and related support to the United States within a reasonable period of time, that country or international organization shall be required to reimburse the United States for the full costs of the training and related support provided by the United States.
(c)Training and related support under this section shall be provided under regulations prescribed by the President.
(d)Not later than February 1 of each year, the President shall submit to the Congress a report on the activities conducted pursuant to this section during the preceding fiscal year, including the estimated full costs of the training and related support provided by the United States to each country and international organization and the estimated value of the training and related support provided to the United States by that country or international organization.

Legislative History

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1985, see section 1301 of Pub. L. 99–83, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1985 Amendment note under section 2151–1 of this title.

Executive Documents

Delegation of Functions For delegation of functions of the President under this section, see section 1(d) of Ex. Ord. No. 13637, Mar. 8, 2013, 78 F.R. 16129, set out as a note under section 2751 of this title. Functions were previously delegated by Ex. Ord. No. 11958, which was formerly set out as a note under section 2751 of this title and was revoked, subject to a

Savings Provision

, by section 4 of Ex. Ord. No. 13637.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 2770a

Title 22Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73