# § 635d. Issuance of debentures, bonds, etc.; obligations redeemable; payment of interest; obligations purchasable by Secretary of the Treasury; public-debt transactions
January 4, 1975July 31, 1945
The Export-Import Bank of the United States is authorized to issue from time to time for purchase by the Secretary of the Treasury its notes, debentures, bonds, or other obligations; but the aggregate amount of such obligations outstanding at any one time shall not exceed $6,000,000,000. Such obligations shall be redeemable at the option of the bank before maturity in such manner as may be stipulated in such obligations and shall have such maturity as may be determined by the Board of Directors of the bank with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. Each such Bank obligation issued to the Treasury after , shall bear interest at a rate not less than the current average yield on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States of comparable maturity during the month preceding the issuance of the obligation of the Bank as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to purchase any obligations of the Bank issued hereunder and for such purpose the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use as a public-debt transaction the proceeds of any securities issued after , under chapter 31 of title 31, and the purposes for which securities may be issued under that chapter are extended to include such purpose. Payment under this section of the purchase price of such obligations of the Bank and repayments thereof by the Bank shall be treated as public-debt transactions of the United States.
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**Source Credit**: (July 31, 1945, ch. 341, § 5, formerly § 6, 59 Stat. 528; June 9, 1947, ch. 101, § 2, 61 Stat. 131; Oct. 3, 1951, ch. 445, § 1(a), 65 Stat. 367; Aug. 9, 1954, ch. 660, § 3(a), 68 Stat. 678; Pub. L. 85–424, § 1(1), May 22, 1958, 72 Stat. 133; Pub. L. 90–267, § 1(a), Mar. 13, 1968, 82 Stat. 47; Pub. L. 93–646, § 7, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2336; renumbered § 5, Pub. L. 102–429, title I, § 121(c)(2), Oct. 21, 1992, 106 Stat. 2199.)
## Editorial Notes
### Codification
“Chapter 31 of title 31” and “that chapter” substituted in text for “the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended” and “that Act”, respectively, on authority of , , , the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.
### Prior Provisions
A prior section 5 of , was classified to , prior to repeal by .
### Amendments
1975— substituted provision making mandatory that each Bank obligation bear interest at a rate not less than the current average yield on outstanding obligations of comparable maturity, for provision requiring that only the current average rate be taken into consideration.
1968— changed name of “Export-Import Bank of Washington” to “Export-Import Bank of the United States”.
1958— substituted “$6,000,000,000” for “$4,000,000,000”.
1954—Act , substituted “$4,000,000,000” for “three and one-half times the authorized capital stock of the Bank”.
1951—Act , substituted “three and one-half” for “two and one-half”.
1947—Act , struck out “and bear such rate of interest” before “as may be determined” in the second sentence and added the third sentence relating to the rate of interest on obligations.
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Effective Date of 1954 Amendment
For effective date of amendment by act , see note set out under .
### Board of Directors
A Board of Directors reestablished for the Export-Import Bank of Washington, see note under .