Title 22Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§286jj Partial guarantees in connection with debt reduction for borrower countries

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 7— - INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC. › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XV— - INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AND BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT › § 286jj

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Treasury Secretary must ask the U.S. director at the World Bank to push the Bank to set rules for offering partial guarantees to private creditors when those guarantees help finish major debt-reduction deals.

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Title 22, §286jj

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The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to initiate discussions with other directors of such bank and to propose that such bank establish criteria under which such bank would provide partial guarantees on debt service payments by borrower countries to private creditors when such guarantees would serve a catalytic role in facilitating final agreement on financing packages which involve significant debt reduction.

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Codification Section is based on section 5 of H.R. 4645, One Hundredth Congress, as reported Sept. 28, 1988, and enacted into law by Pub. L. 100–461. Section was not enacted as part of act July 31, 1945, ch. 339, 59 Stat. 512, known as the Bretton Woods Agreements Act, which comprises this subchapter.

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22 U.S.C. § 286jj

Title 22Foreign Relations and Intercourse

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Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73