31 CFR § 800.251 - United States.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t31/s800.251"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "31 CFR § 800.251 - United States."
title_number: 31
title_name: "Money and Finance: Treasury"
section_number: "800.251"
section_name: "United States."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF INVESTMENT SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY"
part_number: "800"
part_name: "REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO CERTAIN INVESTMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES BY FOREIGN PERSONS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "50 U.S.C. 4565; E.O. 11858, as amended, 73 FR 4677."
regulatory_source: "85 FR 3124, Jan. 17, 2020, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "800"
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# 800.251 United States.
The term *United States* or *U.S.* means the United States of America, the States of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, dependency, or possession of the United States, or any subdivision of the foregoing, and includes the territorial sea of the United States. For purposes of these regulations and their examples in this part, an entity organized under the laws of the United States of America, one of the States, the District of Columbia, or a commonwealth, territory, dependency, or possession of the United States is an entity organized “in the United States.”