---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 422"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "422"
heading: "Retention for United States of defense articles procured for foreign governments"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/422"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Foreign Wars, War Materials, and Neutrality"
  - "Subchapter I — War Materials"
---

# §422. Retention for United States of defense articles procured for foreign governments


Any [defense article](/usc/22/8921.md?p=3) procured pursuant to [section 421 of this title](/usc/22/421.md) shall be retained by or transferred to and for the use of such department or agency of the [United States](/usc/22/408a.md) as the President may determine, in lieu of being disposed of to a [foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) government, whenever in the judgment of the President the defense of the [United States](/usc/22/408a.md) will be best served thereby.


## Source credit

(Oct. 28, 1941, ch. 460, title I, § 103, 55 Stat. 747.)