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Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§4343 Regulations

Title 22 › CHAPTER 53A — DISPOSITION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY ABROAD › § 4343

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of State can write rules to carry out this chapter. The main goal of those rules is to stop employees and their family members from personally making money by selling to or dealing with people who are not allowed to get import, duty, or tax breaks. The rules must make contracting agencies put contract terms in place, so contractors who get import or tax privileges because of their U.S. Government contracts follow the same rule after this chapter goes into effect. The rules can also let the chief of mission (the top U.S. official in a foreign country) set more detailed local rules for employees there, taking into account local laws, markets, exchange rates, and any exchange facilities.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §4343

Foreign Relations and Intercourse, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Issuance; purpose
The Secretary of State may issue regulations to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The primary purpose of such regulations and related policies, rules, and procedures shall be to assure that employees and members of their families do not profit personally from sales or other transactions with persons who are not themselves entitled to exemption from import restrictions, duties, or taxes.
(b)Contractors
Such regulations shall require that, to the extent contractors enjoy importation or tax privileges in a foreign country because of their contractual relationship to the United States Government, after the effective date of this chapter contracting agencies shall include provisions in their contracts to carry out the purpose of this chapter.
(c)Chief of mission
In order to ensure that due account is taken of local conditions, including applicable laws, markets, exchange rate factors, and accommodation exchange facilities, such regulations may authorize the chief of mission to each foreign country to establish more detailed policies, rules, or procedures for the application of this chapter within that country to employees under the chief of mission’s jurisdiction.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

For the

Effective Date

of this chapter, referred to in subsec. (b), as being 180 days after Dec. 22, 1987, see section 186(b) of Pub. L. 100–204 set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 4341 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective 180 days after Dec. 22, 1987, see section 186(b) of Pub. L. 100–204, set out as a note under section 4741 of this title.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 4343

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110