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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§2752 Coordination with Foreign Policy

Title 22 › Chapter 39— ARMS EXPORT CONTROL › Subchapter I— FOREIGN AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY OBJECTIVES AND RESTRAINTS › § 2752

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Summary

The Secretary of State must keep full foreign-policy authority and must lead the ongoing oversight and overall direction of any sales, leases, financing, cooperative projects, and exports covered by this chapter, acting under the President’s direction. The Secretary must consider other U.S. activities abroad, such as military assistance, economic assistance, and the food for peace program, and decide whether to approve a sale or financing (and how much), a lease, a cooperative project and its scope, and whether delivery or other performance will occur. The President must set rules so U.S. representatives in each country coordinate under the Chief of the Diplomatic Mission. The Chief must make sure sales recommendations fit political and economic concerns and may add comments to those recommendations.

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Title 22, §2752

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(a)Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to infringe upon the powers or functions of the Secretary of State.
(b)Under the direction of the President, the Secretary of State (taking into account other United States activities abroad, such as military assistance, economic assistance, and the food for peace program) shall be responsible for the continuous supervision and general direction of sales, leases, financing, cooperative projects, and exports under this chapter, including, but not limited to, determining—
(1)whether there will be a sale to or financing for a country and the amount thereof;
(2)whether there will be a lease to a country;
(3)whether there will be a cooperative project and the scope thereof; and
(4)whether there will be delivery or other performance under such sale, lease, cooperative project, or export,
(c)The President shall prescribe appropriate procedures to assure coordination among representatives of the United States Government in each country, under the leadership of the Chief of the United States Diplomatic Mission. The Chief of the diplomatic mission shall make sure that recommendations of such representatives pertaining to sales are coordinated with political and economic considerations, and his comments shall accompany such recommendations if he so desires.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 90–629, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1321, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 2751 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

1986—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99–661 repealed section 1102(a)(2) of Pub. L. 99–145 and the

Amendments

made by that section, and provided that this section shall apply as if that section had never been enacted. See 1985 Amendment note below. 1985—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99–83 amended subsec. (b) generally, substituting reference to the food for peace program for reference to food for freedom and adding financing and cooperative projects under this chapter to the list of responsibilities of the Secretary of State. Pub. L. 99–145, § 1102(a)(2), which enacted

Amendments

similar to those provided in Pub. L. 99–83, was repealed. See 1986 Amendment note above and

Effective Date

note below. 1981—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97–113 substituted “sales, leases,” for “sales” in two places and “such sale, lease,” for “such sale” and inserted “whether there shall be a lease to a country,” after “whether there shall be a sale to a country and the amount thereof,”. 1976—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 94–329 inserted “and exports” after “sales” wherever appearing and “and whether there shall be delivery or other performance under such sale or export,” after “thereof,”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1985 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 99–83 effective Oct. 1, 1985, see section 1301 of Pub. L. 99–83, set out as a note under section 2151–1 of this title.

Effective Date

Section effective July 1, 1968, see section 41 of Pub. L. 90–629, set out as a note under section 2751 of this title.

Repeals

Pub. L. 99–145, title XI, § 1102(a)(5), Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 710, which provided for the repeal of the

Amendments

made by § 1102(a) of Pub. L. 99–145, effective as of the

Effective Date

of similar

Amendments

by Pub. L. 99–83, was repealed by Pub. L. 99–661, div. A, title XIII, § 1342(e), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3991.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 2752

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

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