---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 2276"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "2276"
heading: "“Central American countries” defined"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/2276"
units:
  - "Chapter 32 — Foreign Assistance"
  - "Subchapter I — International Development"
  - "Part VI — Central America Democracy, Peace, and Development Initiative"
---

# §2276. “Central American countries” defined


For the purposes of this part, the term “Central American countries” includes Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and regional [programs](/usc/22/3383.md?p=6) which benefit such countries.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–195, pt. I, § 466, as added Pub. L. 99–83, title VII, § 701, Aug. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 237.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Another section 466 of Pub. L. 87–195 is classified to section 2286 of this title.