Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102

§5303 Statement of Policy

Title 22 › CHAPTER 62 — INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL POLICY › SUBCHAPTER I — EXCHANGE RATES AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY COORDINATION › § 5303

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The United States should work with other major industrial countries to keep coordinating money, budget, and economic reform policies started by the Plaza Agreement of September 1985. The goal is to have policies and exchange rates that create more balanced, sustainable trade and capital flows, keep prices stable with economic growth, and—when useful—join in currency markets to smooth adjustments and help current accounts. It increases the President’s responsibility for how policies and exchange rates affect trade competitiveness.

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Title 22, §5303

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It is the policy of the United States that—

(1)the United States and the other major industrialized countries should take steps to continue the process of coordinating monetary, fiscal, and structural policies initiated in the Plaza Agreement of September 1985;

(2)the goal of the United States in international economic negotiations should be to achieve macroeconomic policies and exchange rates consistent with more appropriate and sustainable balances in trade and capital flows and to foster price stability in conjunction with economic growth;

(3)the United States, in close coordination with the other major industrialized countries should, where appropriate, participate in international currency markets with the objective of producing more orderly adjustment of foreign exchange markets and, in combination with necessary macroeconomic policy changes, assisting adjustment toward a more appropriate and sustainable balance in current accounts; and

(4)the accountability of the President for the impact of economic policies and exchange rates on trade competitiveness should be increased.

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22 U.S.C. § 5303

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102