22 USC § 8541 - Definitions

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title: "22 USC § 8541 - Definitions"
title_number: 22
title_name: "FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE"
section_number: "8541"
section_name: "Definitions"
chapter_number: 92
chapter_name: "COMPREHENSIVE IRAN SANCTIONS, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND DIVESTMENT"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "PREVENTION OF DIVERSION OF CERTAIN GOODS, SERVICES, AND TECHNOLOGIES TO IRAN"
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last_updated: "2026-03-26"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 111–195, title III, § 301, July 1, 2010, 124 Stat. 1345.)"
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# § 8541. Definitions

In this subchapter:

**(1)** **Allow** The term “allow”, with respect to the diversion through a country of goods, services, or technologies, means the government of the country knows or has reason to know that the territory of the country is being used for such diversion.

**(2)** **Appropriate congressional committees** The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—

**(A)** the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and

**(B)** the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.

**(3)** **Commerce Control List** The term “Commerce Control List” means the list maintained pursuant to part 774 of the Export Administration Regulations (or any corresponding similar regulation or ruling).

**(4)** **Divert; diversion** The terms “divert” and “diversion” refer to the transfer or release, directly or indirectly, of a good, service, or technology to an end-user or an intermediary that is not an authorized recipient of the good, service, or technology.

**(5)** **End-user** The term “end-user”, with respect to a good, service, or technology, means the person that receives and ultimately uses the good, service, or technology.

**(6)** **Export Administration Regulations** The term “Export Administration Regulations” means subchapter C of chapter VII of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations (or any corresponding similar regulation or ruling).

**(7)** **Government** The term “government” includes any agency or instrumentality of a government.

**(8)** **Intermediary** The term “intermediary” means a person that receives a good, service, or technology while the good, service, or technology is in transit to the end-user of the good, service, or technology.

**(9)** **International Traffic in Arms Regulations** The term “International Traffic in Arms Regulations” means subchapter M of chapter I of title 22, Code of Federal Regulations (or any corresponding similar regulation or ruling).

**(10)** **Iran** The term “Iran” includes the Government of Iran and any agency or instrumentality of Iran.

**(11)** **Iranian end-user** The term “Iranian end-user” means an end-user that is the Government of Iran or a person in, or an agency or instrumentality of, Iran.

**(12)** **Iranian intermediary** The term “Iranian intermediary” means an intermediary that is the Government of Iran or a person in, or an agency or instrumentality of, Iran.

**(13)** **State sponsor of terrorism** The term “state sponsor of terrorism” means any country the government of which the Secretary of State has determined has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism pursuant to—

**1** section 4605(j)(1)(A) [^1] of title 50 (or any successor thereto);

See References in Text note below.

**(B)** section 2780(d) of this title; or

**(C)** section 2371(a) of this title.

**(14)** **United States Munitions List** The term “United States Munitions List” means the list maintained pursuant to part 121 of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (or any corresponding similar regulation or ruling).

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 111–195, title III, § 301, July 1, 2010, 124 Stat. 1345.)

### Termination of Section

For termination of section, see .

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

, referred to in par. (13)(A), was repealed by , , . Provisions similar to those in former  can be found in , as enacted by .