---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 2676"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "2676"
heading: "Contracts in foreign countries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/2676"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Department of State"
---

# §2676. Contracts in foreign countries


The Secretary of State is authorized to enter into contracts in [foreign countries](/usc/22/2321c.md?p=2) involving expenditures from funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of State, without regard to the provisions of [section 6306 of title 41](/usc/41/6306.md): Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to waive the provisions of [section 431 of title 18](/usc/18/431.md).


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 841, title I, § 9, 70 Stat. 891; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 97–241, title II, § 202(a), Aug. 24, 1982, 96 Stat. 282.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

In text, “section 6306 of title 41” substituted for “section 3741 of the Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 22)” on authority of Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.

Section was formerly classified to section 170n of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.