Title 12, Banks and BankingRelease 119-102

§635p Presidential Mandate to Negotiate; Objectives

Title 12 › CHAPTER 6A — EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES › SUBCHAPTER III — TIED AID CREDIT EXPORT SUBSIDIES › § 635p

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President must push other countries to negotiate limits and rules on using tied aid for exports. U.S. goals for those talks include: clearly defining types of tied aid, including mixed credits under the OECD Arrangement; ending government-mixed credits by a set date; making rules for public-private cofinancing that can act like subsidized export finance; raising the notification threshold to a 50 percent level of concessionality; requiring advance notice whenever tied aid is used; and banning tied aid to build factories that produce goods already in global oversupply.

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Title 12, §635p

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The President shall vigorously pursue negotiations to limit and set rules for the use of tied aid for exports. The negotiating objectives of the United States should include reaching agreements—

(1)to define the various forms of tied aid credit, particularly mixed credits under the Arrangement on Guidelines for Officially Supported Export Credits established through the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Arrangement”);

(2)to phase out the use of government-mixed credits by a date certain;

(3)to set rules governing the use of public-private cofinancing, or other forms of mixed financing, which may have the same result as government-mixed credits of drawing on concessional development assistance to produce subsidized export financing;

(4)to raise the threshold for notification of the use of tied aid credit to a 50 per centum level of concessionality;

(5)to improve notification procedures so that advance notification must be given on all uses of tied aid credit; and

(6)to prohibit the use of tied aid credit for production facilities for goods which are in structural oversupply in the world.

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12 U.S.C. § 635p

Title 12, Banks and Banking

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102