Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§282e Payment of Subscriptions to Corporation by United States; Dividends Covered Into Treasury

Title 22 › Chapter 7— INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC. › Subchapter XI— INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION › § 282e

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Treasury can pay the United States’ subscription to the Corporation. To do that, the Treasury may use up to $35,168,000 from money raised by issuing government securities under federal borrowing law (chapter 31 of title 31). Those payments, and any money repaid later, are counted as public-debt transactions of the United States. Any dividends the Corporation pays to the United States must be turned into the Treasury and recorded as miscellaneous receipts.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §282e

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(a)The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to pay the subscription of the United States to the Corporation and for this purpose is authorized to use as a public-debt transaction not to exceed $35,168,000 of the proceeds of any securities hereafter issued under chapter 31 of title 31, and the purposes for which securities may be issued under that chapter are extended to include such purpose. Payment under this subsection of the subscription of the United States to the Corporation and any repayment thereof shall be treated as public-debt transactions of the United States.

(b)Any payment of dividends made to the United States by the Corporation shall be covered into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt.

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Editorial Notes

Codification In subsec. (a), “chapter 31 of title 31” and “that chapter” substituted for “the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended” and “that Act”, respectively, on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.

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22 U.S.C. § 282e

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60