Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102

§1458 Policy Governing Rendition of Services

Title 22 › CHAPTER 18 — UNITED STATES INFORMATION AND EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS › SUBCHAPTER IV — PARTICIPATION BY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES › § 1458

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must encourage qualified private U.S. experts and companies to provide technical services to foreign governments when they are able and available. The Government should not do work that those private providers can do. If a U.S. agency does provide services, the work must show U.S. technical skill and be advisory, investigative, instructional, or a technical demonstration. Agencies must not build or supervise public works. Engineering on public works by a U.S. agency can happen only if the Secretary finds the national interest requires it. Individual specialists may still be sent as advisers under subchapter III with small, necessary support.

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Title 22, §1458

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In authorizing the performance of technical and other services under this subchapter, it is the sense of the Congress (1) that the Secretary shall encourage through any appropriate Government agency the performance of such services to foreign governments by qualified private American individuals and agencies, and shall not enter into the performance of such services to any foreign government where such services may be performed adequately by qualified private American individuals and agencies and such qualified individuals and agencies are available for the performance of such services; (2) that if such services are rendered by a Government agency, they shall demonstrate the technical accomplishments of the United States, such services being of an advisory, investigative, or instructional nature, or a demonstration of a technical process; (3) that such services shall not include the construction of public works or the supervision of the construction of public works, and that, under authority of this chapter, a Government agency shall render engineering services related to public works only when the Secretary shall determine that the national interest demands the rendering of such services by a Government agency, but this policy shall not be interpreted to preclude the assignment of individual specialists as advisers to other governments as provided under subchapter III of this chapter, together with such incidental assistance as may be necessary for the accomplishment of their individual assignments.

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22 U.S.C. § 1458

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102