---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 1447"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "1447"
heading: "Books and materials"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/1447"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — United States Information and Educational Exchange Programs"
  - "Subchapter II — Interchange of Persons, Knowledge, and Skills Between United States and Foreign Countries"
---

# §1447. Books and materials


The [Secretary](/usc/22/1433.md?p=1) is authorized to provide for interchanges between the United States and other countries of books and periodicals, including government publications, for the translation of such writings, and for the preparation, distribution, and interchange of other educational materials.


## Source credit

(Jan. 27, 1948, ch. 36, title II, § 202, 62 Stat. 7.)