Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73
§3305 The American Institute in Taiwan
Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 48— - TAIWAN RELATIONS › § 3305
Summary
U.S. programs, transactions, and agreements about Taiwan must be done through the American Institute in Taiwan, a nonprofit in the District of Columbia, or a similar private group the President names. Any D.C., state, or local law that gets in the way of the Institute doing this work is treated as overridden.
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Title 22, §3305
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(a)Programs, transactions, and other relations conducted or carried out by the President or any agency of the United States Government with respect to Taiwan shall, in the manner and to the extent directed by the President, be conducted and carried out by or through—
(1)The American Institute in Taiwan, a nonprofit corporation incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia, or
(2)such comparable successor nongovernmental entity as the President may designate,(hereafter in this chapter referred to as the “Institute”).
(b)Whenever the President or any agency of the United States Government is authorized or required by or pursuant to the laws of the United States to enter into, perform, enforce, or have in force an agreement or transaction relative to Taiwan, such agreement or transaction shall be entered into, performed, and enforced, in the manner and to the extent directed by the President, by or through the Institute.
(c)To the extent that any law, rule, regulation, or ordinance of the District of Columbia, or of any State or political subdivision thereof in which the Institute is incorporated or doing business, impedes or otherwise interferes with the performance of the functions of the Institute pursuant to this chapter, such law, rule, regulation, or ordinance shall be deemed to be preempted by this chapter.
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Effective Date
Section effective as of January 1, 1979, see section 18 of Pub. L. 96–8, set out as a note under section 3301 of this title.
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22 U.S.C. § 3305
Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73