---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 10502"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "10502"
heading: "Publication and provision of lists regarding progress on anti-corruption efforts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/10502"
units:
  - "Chapter 112 — Combating Global Corruption"
---

# §10502. Publication and provision of lists regarding progress on anti-corruption efforts

- (a) **Public list—** The Secretary of State shall publish annually, on a publicly accessible website, a list of [foreign countries](/usc/22/2321c.md?p=2) where the government is sustaining or making good progress on anti-[corruption](/usc/22/10501.md?p=3) efforts in accordance with the minimum standards set forth in [section 10503 of this title](/usc/22/10503.md). Such list shall include a brief description of each such country’s progress or justification for being on such list.
- (b) **Classified list—** The Secretary of State shall provide to the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/22/10501.md?p=1) a classified list of countries where the government is making limited or no efforts to comply with minimum standards set forth in [section 10503 of this title](/usc/22/10503.md), and are not achieving meaningful progress on combating [corruption](/usc/22/10501.md?p=3). Such list shall include a brief description of each country’s lack of progress or justification for being on such list.
- (c) **Annual update—** The Secretary of State shall provide an annual update in a classified setting to the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/22/10501.md?p=1) on the United States Government’s efforts to fight against [corruption](/usc/22/10501.md?p=3). This update should include an overview of the key obstacles to combating [corruption](/usc/22/10501.md?p=3) and present near-term and long-term strategies.
- (d) **Implementation and timing—**
  - (1) **Deadline—** The publication and submission of the lists and the annual update required by subsections [(a)](#a), [(b)](#b), and [(c)](#c) shall be completed not later than 2 years after December 22, 2023, and annually thereafter for seven years.
  - (2) **Report on methodology—** Not later than one year after December 22, 2023, the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) shall submit to the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/22/10501.md?p=1) a report detailing the methodology developed to assign countries to either the public list or the classified list and a proposed budget for preparing the first set of lists during the subsequent year.
- (e) **Exception to publication—** The [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) may, in specific instances where the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) determines the inclusion of specific countries on the public list required by [subsection (a)](#a) would not be in the national interests of the United States, submit the information required by [subsection (a)](#a) about such specific countries in a classified manner in writing to the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/22/10501.md?p=1), together with a justification for why publication would not be in the national interest. The justification, if applicable, shall be submitted the same date as the public list required by [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 118–31, div. E, title LIV, § 5403, Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 944.)