---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 3314"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "3314"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/3314"
units:
  - "Chapter 48 — Taiwan Relations"
---

# §3314. Definitions


For purposes of this chapter—

- (1) the term “laws of the United States” includes any statute, rule, regulation, ordinance, order, or judicial rule of decision of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) or any political subdivision thereof; and
- (2) the term “Taiwan” includes, as the context may require, the islands of Taiwan and the Pescadores, the people on those islands, [corporations](/usc/22/7702.md?p=6) and other entities and associations created or organized under the laws applied on those islands, and the governing authorities on Taiwan recognized by the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) as the Republic of China prior to January 1, 1979, and any successor governing authorities (including political subdivisions, agencies, and instrumentalities thereof).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–8, § 15, Apr. 10, 1979, 93 Stat. 20.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective as of January 1, 1979, see section 18 of Pub. L. 96–8, set out as a note under section 3301 of this title.