---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 283z–9"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "283z–9"
heading: "Multilateral Investment Fund"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/283z-9"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XII — Inter-American Development Bank"
---

# §283z–9. Multilateral Investment Fund

- (a) **Authorization of contribution—** The [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury is authorized to contribute, and to make payment of, $500,000,000 to the Multilateral Investment Fund established pursuant to the agreements of February 11, 1992: Provided, That such funds shall only be disbursed from the Fund to countries that have governments that are democratically elected,[^1] that do not harbor or sponsor international terrorists; that do not fail to cooperate in narcotics matters; and that do not engage in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** There is hereby authorized to be appropriated without fiscal year limitation $500,000,000 for the contribution authorized in [subsection (a)](#a).
- (c) **Environmental assessment of actions—** If an Enterprise for the Americas Multilateral Investment Fund is established pursuant to this section, the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury shall instruct the United States representative to the Fund not to vote in favor of any action proposed to be taken by the Fund which may have a significant adverse effect on the environment unless an assessment of the impact of the action on the environment has been available for at least 120 days before the vote.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. The comma probably should be a semicolon.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–147, § 37, as added Pub. L. 102–391, title V, § 594(b), Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1693.)