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[CITE: 22USC286f]

TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
SUBCHAPTER XV--INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AND BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION
AND DEVELOPMENT
Sec. 286f. Obtaining and furnishing information to the Fund

(a) Required disclosure
Whenever a request is made by the Fund to the United States as a
member to furnish data under article VIII, section 5, of the Articles of
Agreement of the Fund, the President may, through any agency he may
designate, require any person to furnish such information as the
President may determine to be essential to comply with such request. In
making such determination the President shall seek to collect the
information only in such detail as is necessary to comply with the
request of the Fund. No information so acquired shall be furnished to
the Fund in such detail that the affairs of any person are disclosed.
(b) Penalty for refusal
In the event any person refuses to furnish such information when
requested to do so, the President, through any designated governmental
agency, may by subpoena require such person to appear and testify or to
appear and produce records and other documents, or both. In case of
contumacy by, or refusal to obey a subpoena served upon any such person,
the district court for any district in which such person is found or
resides or transacts business, upon application by the President or any
governmental agency designated by him, shall have jurisdiction to issue
an order requiring such person to appear and give testimony or appear
and produce records and documents, or both; and any failure to obey such
order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
(c) Penalty for unlawful disclosures
It shall be unlawful for any officer or employee of the Government,
or for any advisor or consultant to the Government, to disclose,
otherwise than in the course of official duty, any information obtained
under this section, or to use any such information for his personal
benefit. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this subsection
shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned for
not more than five years, or both.
(d) ``Person'' defined
The term ``person'' as used in this section means an individual,
partnership, corporation or association.
(July 31, 1945, ch. 339, Sec. 8, 59 Stat. 515.)
Ex. Ord. No. 10033. Regulations Governing the Providing of Statistical
Information to Intergovernmental Organizations
Ex. Ord. No. 10033, Feb. 8, 1949, 14 F.R. 561, as amended by Ex.

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Ord. No. 11269, Feb. 14, 1966, 31 F.R. 2813; Ex. Ord. No. 12013, Oct. 7,
1977, 42 F.R. 54931; Ex. Ord. No. 12318, Aug. 21, 1981, 46 F.R. 42833,
provided:
Section 1. Except as provided in section 2 hereof, the Director of
the Office of Management and Budget, hereinafter referred to as the
Director, (a) shall determine, with the concurrence of the Secretary of
State, what statistical information shall be provided in response to
official requests received by the United States Government from any
intergovernmental organization of which this country is a member, and
(b) shall determine which Federal executive agency or agencies shall
prepare the statistical information thus to be provided. The statistical
information so prepared shall be transmitted to the requesting
intergovernmental organization through established channels by the
Secretary of State or by any Federal executive agency now or hereafter
authorized by the Secretary of State to transmit such information.
Sec. 2. (a) The National Advisory Council on International Monetary
and Financial Policies, hereinafter referred to as the National Advisory
Council, shall determine, after consultation with the Director, what
information is essential in order that the United States Government may
comply with official requests for information received from the
International Monetary Fund or the International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development.
(b) The Director shall determine which Federal executive agency or
agencies shall collect or make available information found essential
under section 2(a) hereof.
(c) In the collection of information pursuant to a determination
made by the Director under section 2(b) hereof in response to a request
under article VIII, section 5, of the Articles of Agreement of the
International Monetary Fund, the authority conferred on the President by
section 8 of the Bretton Woods Agreements Act [this section] to require
any person to furnish such information, by subpoena or otherwise, may be
exercised by each of the following-named agencies:
Department of Agriculture.
Department of Commerce.
Department of the Interior.
Department of Labor.
Department of the Treasury.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Federal Communications Commission.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Federal Power Commission.
Federal Trade Commission.
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Securities and Exchange Commission.
United States Maritime Commission.
United States Tariff Commission [now the United States International
Trade Commission].
(d) The information collected or made available under section 2 of
this order shall be submitted to the National Advisory Council for
review and for presentation to the said Fund or Bank.
(e) As used in this order, the word ``person'' means an individual,
partnership, corporation, or association.
Sec. 3. The Director's determination of any matter under section 1
or section 2(b) of this order shall be made after consulting appropriate
Federal executive agencies and giving due consideration to any
responsibility now exercised by any of them in relation to an
intergovernmental organization.
Sec. 4. This order shall not be construed to authorize the Director
or the National Advisory Council to provide, or to require any Federal
executive agency to provide, to an intergovernmental organization (a)
information during any period of time when the agency having primary
responsibility for security of the specified information declares that
it must be withheld from the intergovernmental organization in the

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interest of military security, or (b) information which any Federal
executive agency is required by law to maintain on a confidential basis.
Sec. 5. The Director and the National Advisory Council are
authorized to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry
out their respective responsibilities under this order.
Sec. 6. To the extent that this order conflicts with any previous
Executive order, the provisions of this order shall control.
Sec. 7. [Revoked by Ex. Ord. No. 12318, Aug. 21, 1981, 46 F.R.
42833]

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