---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 282k"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "282k"
heading: "Securities issued by Corporation"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/282k"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XI — International Finance Corporation"
---

# §282k. Securities issued by Corporation

- (a) **Exemption from securities laws; reports to Securities and Exchange Commission—** Any securities issued by the [Corporation](/usc/22/7702.md?p=6) (including any guaranty by the [Corporation](/usc/22/7702.md?p=6), whether or not limited in scope) and any securities guaranteed by the [Corporation](/usc/22/7702.md?p=6) as to both principal and interest shall be deemed to be exempted securities within the meaning of [section 77c(a)(2) of title 15](/usc/15/77c.md?p=a-2) and [section 78c(a)(12) of title 15](/usc/15/78c.md?p=a-12). The [Corporation](/usc/22/7702.md?p=6) shall file with the Securities and Exchange [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2) such annual and other reports with regard to such securities as the [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2) shall determine to be appropriate in view of the special character of the [Corporation](/usc/22/7702.md?p=6) and its operations and necessary in the public interest or for the protection of investors.
- (b) **Authority of Securities and Exchange Commission to suspend exemption; reports to Congress—** The Securities and Exchange [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2), acting in consultation with the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems, is authorized to suspend the provisions of [subsection (a)](#a) at any time as to any or all securities issued or guaranteed by the [Corporation](/usc/22/7702.md?p=6) during the period of such suspension. The [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2) shall include in its [annual reports](/usc/22/6402.md?p=2) to the Congress such information as it shall deem advisable with regard to the operations and effect of this section.

## Source credit

(Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 788, § 13, as added Pub. L. 101–513, title V, § 562(e)(1)(A), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 2037.)