22 USC § 6446 - Effects on existing contracts

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identifier: "/us/usc/t22/s6446"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "22 USC § 6446 - Effects on existing contracts"
title_number: 22
title_name: "FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE"
section_number: "6446"
section_name: "Effects on existing contracts"
chapter_number: 73
chapter_name: "INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS"
part_number: "A"
part_name: "Targeted Responses to Violations of Religious Freedom Abroad"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-03-26"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 105–292, title IV, § 406, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2808.)"
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# § 6446. Effects on existing contracts

The President shall not be required to apply or maintain any Presidential action under this part—

**(1)** in the case of procurement of defense articles or defense services—

**(A)** under existing contracts or subcontracts, including the exercise of options for production quantities, to satisfy requirements essential to the national security of the United States;

**(B)** if the President determines in writing and so reports to Congress that the person or other entity to which the Presidential action would otherwise be applied is a sole source supplier of the defense articles or services, that the defense articles or services are essential, and that alternative sources are not readily or reasonably available; or

**(C)** if the President determines in writing and so reports to Congress that such articles or services are essential to the national security under defense coproduction agreements; or

**(2)** to products or services provided under contracts entered into before the date on which the President publishes his intention to take the Presidential action.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 105–292, title IV, § 406, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2808.)