Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60
§288k Extension of Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities to Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices
Title 22 › Chapter 7— INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC. › Subchapter XVIII— PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS › § 288k
Summary
Allows Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices (Hong Kong’s trade missions in the U.S.) to get same immunities U.S. gives public international organizations under treaty or law. The President may apply Article I of the Agreement on State and Local Taxation of Foreign Employees (April 21, 1994) to them.
Full Legal Text
Title 22, §288k
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(a)The provisions of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288 et seq.) may be extended to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices in the same manner, to the same extent, and subject to the same conditions as such provisions may be extended to a public international organization in which the United States participates pursuant to any treaty or under the authority of any Act of Congress authorizing such participation or making an appropriation for such participation.
(b)The President is authorized to apply the provisions of Article I of the Agreement on State and Local Taxation of Foreign Employees of Public International Organizations, done at Washington on April 21, 1994, to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices.
(c)The term “Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices” refers to Hong Kong’s official economic and trade missions in the United States.
Legislative History
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The International Organizations Immunities Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is title I of act Dec. 29, 1945, ch. 652, 59 Stat. 669, which is classified principally to this subchapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
Short Title
note set out under section 288 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was not enacted as part of the International Organizations Immunities Act which comprises this subchapter.
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Citation
22 U.S.C. § 288k
Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60