---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 283ff"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "283ff"
heading: "Subscription of stock"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/283ff"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XII–A — Inter-American Investment Corporation"
---

# §283ff. Subscription of stock

- (a) **Secretary of the Treasury as subscribing authority—** The [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury is authorized to subscribe on behalf of the United States to five thousand one hundred shares of the capital stock of the Corporation: Provided, however, That the subscription shall be effective only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts.
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** There is authorized to be appropriated, without fiscal year limitation, for payment by the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury of the subscription of the United States for those shares, $51,000,000.
- (c) **Disposition of dividends—** Any payment of dividends made to the United States by the Corporation shall be deposited into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–473, title I, § 101(1) [title I], Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 1884, 1885.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is based on section 207 of title II of S. 2416, Ninety-eighth Congress, as introduced Mar. 13, 1984, and enacted into law by Pub. L. 98–473.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### First General Capital Increase

Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(2) [title V, § 594], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1535, 1501A–122, provided in part that the Secretary of the Treasury may effect the United States participation in the first general capital increase of the Inter-American Investment Corporation, and authorized $125,180,000 to be appropriated without fiscal year limitation for payment by the Secretary for paid-in capital of the Corporation.