22 U.S.C. § 2394 — Reports and information; definitions
submitted 65 years ago by Pub. L. 87-195 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 942 words · no verdicts yet
The Development Coordination Committee chair must send Congress an annual report on United States policies, foreign assistance, debt, trade, and related programs affecting developing countries. The section also defines “foreign assistance” and “provided by the United States Government.”
(a) By February 1 each year, as part of the annual foreign-assistance presentation, the Development Coordination Committee chair must send Congress a report to inform Congress and the public about United States foreign policy and the effectiveness of assistance. It must include: (1)(A) a coordinated review of United States policies and programs with a major effect on developing-country development, including assistance, trade, debt, employment, food, energy, technology, population, oceans, environment, settlements, natural resources, and participation in development agencies; (B) an assessment of effects on the poor majority, including life expectancy, literacy, infant mortality and birth rates, food production, and employment, and how directly part I programs benefit that majority; and (C) effects on United States employment, wages, and working conditions; (2) the dollar value of all assistance and guarantees, by category and country, for the historical period from 1946 through the preceding fiscal year, the preceding fiscal year’s presentation and obligations, the current year’s plan, the next year’s proposal, and each prior-year AID contract over $100,000 entered without competitive selection and the reasons; (3) repayments by country on earlier assistance loans; (4) the status of qualifying unpaid agricultural-credit sales and Export-Import Bank transactions, listing individually only transactions over $1,000,000; (5)(A) each assisted country’s debt-servicing capacity, (B) all United States debt relief and its purpose by country, and (C) net aid flow after that relief; (6) the dollar value of specified assistance supplied by each OECD or OPEC member government; (7) each type’s percentage of that country’s gross national product and government budget and its per-person contribution; (8) foreign currencies acquired without dollars and held by each country on September 30 of the preceding fiscal year; (9) the Committee’s operations under section 2399c(f); (10) the aggregate value and quantity of grant military assistance, military education and training, and other defense articles and services furnished to each foreign country and international organization in the preceding fiscal year; (11) Minority Resource Center activities; and (12) other information appropriate to the United States foreign-assistance program.
(b) For this section, “foreign assistance” means any tangible or intangible item the United States Government provides to a foreign country or international organization under this chapter or another Act, including training, services, technical advice, real, personal, or mixed property, agricultural commodities, United States dollars, and foreign currencies owned by the United States Government. “Provided by the United States Government” includes assistance given by gift, loan, sale, credit, or guarantee.
In order that the Congress and the American people may be better and more currently informed regarding American foreign policy and the effectiveness of assistance provided by the United States Government to other countries and to international organizations, the Chairman* of the Development Coordination Committee shall prepare and transmit to the Congress, no later than February 1 of each year, as a part of the annual presentation materials for foreign assistance, a report as described in this subsection. This report shall include—
a comprehensive and coordinated review of all United States policies and programs having a major impact on the development of developing countries, including but not limited to bilateral and multilateral assistance, trade, debt, employment, food, energy, technology, population, oceans, environment, human settlements, natural resources, and participation in international agencies concerned with development;
an assessment of the impact of such policies and programs on the well-being of the poor majority in developing countries in accordance with the policy objectives of part I of subchapter I of this chapter, including increasing life expectancy and literacy, lowering infant mortality and birth rates, and increasing food production and employment, such assessment to include an evaluation of the extent to which programs under part I of subchapter I of this chapter directly benefit the poor majority; and
an assessment of the impact of such policies and programs on economic conditions in the United States, including but not limited to employment, wages, and working conditions;
the dollar value of all foreign assistance and guaranties by category and by country provided or made by the United States Government by any means to all foreign countries and international organizations—
from 1946 to the fiscal year immediately preceding the fiscal year for which the report is required;
as presented to Congress for the immediate preceding fiscal year;
as obligated during the immediately preceding fiscal year;
as planned for the fiscal year in which the report is presented;
as proposed for the fiscal year following the year in which the report is presented; and
of any contract in excess of $100,000 administered by the Agency for International Development which was entered into in the preceding fiscal year without competitive selection procedures, and the reasons for doing so;
a summary of repayments, by country, to the United States from previous foreign assistance loans;
the status of each sale of agricultural commodities on credit terms theretofore made under the Food for Peace Act [7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.] with respect to which there remains outstanding any unpaid obligation; and the status of each transaction with respect to which a loan, contract or guarantee of insurance, or extension of credit (or participation therein) was theretofore made under the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 [12 U.S.C. 635 et seq.] with respect to which there remains outstanding any unpaid obligation or potential liability; except that such report shall include individually only any loan, contract, sale, extension of credit, or other transactions listed in this paragraph which is in excess of $1,000,000;
the status of the debt servicing capacity of each country receiving assistance under this chapter;
all forms of debt relief granted by the United States with respect to such countries, together with a detailed statement of the specific debt relief granted with respect to each such country and the purpose for which it was granted; and
a summary of the net aid flow from the United States to such countries, taking into consideration the debt relief granted by the United States;
the dollar value of all official development assistance, security assistance, international disaster assistance, refugee assistance, and international narcotics control assistance provided by each government of a country which is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development or of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries;
the percentage which each type of assistance described in paragraph (6) represents of (A) the gross national product of each country referred to in paragraph (6), and (B) the budget of the government of such country, as well as the per capita contribution for each country for each type of assistance described in paragraph (6);
the amount of all foreign currencies acquired without payment of dollars on hand of each foreign country as of September 30 of the preceding fiscal year;
the Development Coordination Committee’s operations pursuant to section 2399c(f) of this title;
the aggregate dollar value and quantity of grant military assistance, military education and training, and any other defense articles and services furnished under this chapter by the United States to each foreign country and international organization for the preceding fiscal year;
information concerning the activities of the Minority Resource Center during the preceding fiscal year; and
other information appropriate to the conduct of the foreign assistance program of the United States Government.
For purposes of this section—
“foreign assistance” means any tangible or intangible item provided by the United States Government to a foreign country or international organization under this chapter or any other Act, including but not limited to any training, service, or technical advice, any item of real, personal, or mixed property, any agricultural commodity, United States dollars, and any currencies of any foreign country which are owned by the United States Government; and
“provided by the United States Government” includes, but is not limited to, foreign assistance provided by means of gift, loan, sale, credit, or guaranty.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 87–195, pt. III, § 634, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 455; Pub. L. 87–565, pt. III, § 302(e), (f), Aug. 1, 1962, 76 Stat. 262; Pub. L. 89–583, pt. III, § 302(c), Sept. 19, 1966, 80 Stat. 807; Pub. L. 90–137, pt. III, § 302(h), Nov. 14, 1967, 81 Stat. 460; Pub. L. 90–629, ch. 4, § 45(a), (b)(4), Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1327; Pub. L. 91–175, pt. III, § 305, Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 821; Pub. L. 92–226, pt. III, § 304(a)(3), (c)(2), Feb. 7, 1972, 86 Stat. 28, 32; Pub. L. 93–189, § 17, Dec. 17, 1973, 87 Stat. 724; Pub. L. 93–559, § 14, Dec. 30, 1974, 88 Stat. 1799; Pub. L. 94–273, § 6(1), Apr. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 377; Pub. L. 94–329, title II, § 209(b), June 30, 1976, 90 Stat. 739; Pub. L. 95–424, title V, § 502(a)(1), (2), Oct. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 957; Pub. L. 96–533, title VII, § 707, Dec. 16, 1980, 94 Stat. 3159; Pub. L. 97–113, title VII, § 733, Dec. 29, 1981, 95 Stat. 1559; Pub. L. 99–83, title III, § 312(b), Aug. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 216; Pub. L. 110–246, title III, § 3001(b)(1)(A), (2)(Q), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1820.)
- 1961Enacted · Pub. L. 87-195 · 75 Stat. 455
- 1962Amended · Pub. L. 87-565 · 76 Stat. 262
- 1966Amended · Pub. L. 89-583 · 80 Stat. 807
- 1967Amended · Pub. L. 90-137 · 81 Stat. 460
- 1968Amended · Pub. L. 90-629 · 82 Stat. 1327
- 1969Amended · Pub. L. 91-175 · 83 Stat. 821
- 1972Amended · Pub. L. 92-226 · 86 Stat. 28, 32
- 1973Amended · Pub. L. 93-189 · 87 Stat. 724
- 1974Amended · Pub. L. 93-559 · 88 Stat. 1799
- 1976Amended · Pub. L. 94-273 · 90 Stat. 377
- 1976Amended · Pub. L. 94-329 · 90 Stat. 739
- 1978Amended · Pub. L. 95-424 · 92 Stat. 957
- 1980Amended · Pub. L. 96-533 · 94 Stat. 3159
- 1981Amended · Pub. L. 97-113 · 95 Stat. 1559
- 1985Amended · Pub. L. 99-83 · 99 Stat. 216
- 2008Amended · Pub. L. 110-246 · 122 Stat. 1820
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