---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 3105"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "3105"
heading: "Enforcement"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/3105"
units:
  - "Chapter 46 — International Investment and Trade in Services Survey"
---

# §3105. Enforcement

- (a) **Civil penalty for failure to furnish information—** Whoever fails to furnish any information required under this chapter, whether required to be furnished in the form of a report or otherwise, or to comply with any rule, regulation, order, or instruction promulgated under this chapter, shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $2,500, and not more than $25,000, in a proceeding brought under [subsection (b)](#b) of this section.
- (b) **Civil action for failure to furnish information—** Whenever it appears that any [person](/usc/22/3102.md?p=3) has failed to furnish any information required under this chapter, whether required to be furnished in the form of a report or otherwise, or has failed to comply with any rule, regulation, order, or instruction promulgated under this chapter, a civil action may be brought in an appropriate district court of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1), or the appropriate [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) court of any territory or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1), and such court may enter a restraining order or a permanent or temporary injunction commanding such [person](/usc/22/3102.md?p=3) to furnish such information or to comply with such rule, regulation, order, or instruction, as the case may be, or impose the civil penalty provided in [subsection (a)](#a) of this section, or both.
- (c) **Criminal penalty for failure to submit information—** Whoever willfully fails to submit any information required under this chapter, whether required to be furnished in the form of a report or otherwise, or willfully violates any rule, regulation, order, or instruction promulgated under this chapter, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $10,000 and, if an individual, may be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both, and any officer, director, [employee](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1), or agent of any [corporation](/usc/22/7702.md?p=6) who knowingly participates in such violation, upon conviction, may be punished by a like fine, imprisonment, or both.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–472, § 6, Oct. 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 2063; Pub. L. 101–533, § 7(b), Nov. 7, 1990, 104 Stat. 2349.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1990—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–533 substituted “shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $2,500, and not more than $25,000,” for “may be subject to a civil penalty not exceeding $10,000”.