---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 2276"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "2276"
heading: "“Central American countries” defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/2276"
units:
  - "Chapter 32 — Foreign Assistance"
  - "Subchapter I — International Development"
  - "Part VI — Central America Democracy, Peace, and Development Initiative"
---

# §2276. “Central American countries” defined


For the purposes of this part, the term “Central American countries” includes Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and regional programs which benefit such countries.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–195, pt. I, § 466, as added Pub. L. 99–83, title VII, § 701, Aug. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 237.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Another section 466 of Pub. L. 87–195 is classified to section 2286 of this title.