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22 USC § 283ff - Subscription of stock 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t22/s283ff"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "22 USC § 283ff - Subscription of stock"
title_number: 22
title_name: "FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE"
section_number: "283ff"
section_name: "Subscription of stock"
chapter_number: 7
chapter_name: "INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC."
subchapter_number: "XII–A"
subchapter_name: "INTER-AMERICAN INVESTMENT CORPORATION"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-03-26"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 98–473, title I, § 101(1) [title I], Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 1884, 1885.)"
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# § 283ff. Subscription of stock

**(a)** **Secretary of the Treasury as subscribing authority** *Provided, however*

The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to subscribe on behalf of the United States to five thousand one hundred shares of the capital stock of the Corporation: , That the subscription shall be effective only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts.

**(b)** **Authorization of appropriations** There is authorized to be appropriated, without fiscal year limitation, for payment by the Secretary of the Treasury of the subscription of the United States for those shares, $51,000,000.

**(c)** **Disposition of dividends** Any payment of dividends made to the United States by the Corporation shall be deposited into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 98–473, title I, § 101(1) [title I], Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 1884, 1885.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is based on section 207 of title II of S. 2416, Ninety-eighth Congress, as introduced , and enacted into law by .

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### First General Capital Increase

, , , 1501A–122, provided in part that the Secretary of the Treasury may effect the United States participation in the first general capital increase of the Inter-American Investment Corporation, and authorized $125,180,000 to be appropriated without fiscal year limitation for payment by the Secretary for paid-in capital of the Corporation.