---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 286r"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "286r"
heading: "United States participation in special drawing account"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/286r"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XV — International Monetary Fund and Bank for Reconstruction and Development"
---

# §286r. United States participation in special drawing account


The provisions of article XXI(b) of the Articles of Agreement of the Fund shall have full force and effect in the United States and its territories and possessions when the United States becomes a participant in the special drawing account.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–349, § 7, June 19, 1968, 82 Stat. 189; Pub. L. 94–564, § 5(4), Oct. 19, 1976, 90 Stat. 2661.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of act July 31, 1945, ch. 339, 59 Stat. 512, known as the Bretton Woods Agreement Act, which comprises this subchapter.

### Amendments

1976—Pub. L. 94–564 substituted “article XXI(b)” for “article XXVII(b)”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1976 Amendment

Amendment effective Apr. 1, 1978, see section 9 of Pub. L. 94–564, set out as a note under section 286a of this title.