---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6446"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6446"
heading: "Effects on existing contracts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6446"
units:
  - "Chapter 73 — International Religious Freedom"
  - "Subchapter III — Presidential Actions"
  - "Part A — Targeted Responses to Violations of Religious Freedom Abroad"
---

# §6446. Effects on existing contracts


The President shall not be required to apply or maintain any Presidential action under this part—

- (1) in the case of procurement of defense articles or defense services—
  - (A) under existing contracts or subcontracts, including the exercise of options for production quantities, to satisfy requirements essential to the national security of the United States;
  - (B) if the President determines in writing and so reports to Congress that the person or other entity to which the Presidential action would otherwise be applied is a sole source supplier of the defense articles or services, that the defense articles or services are essential, and that alternative sources are not readily or reasonably available; or
  - (C) if the President determines in writing and so reports to Congress that such articles or services are essential to the national security under defense coproduction agreements; or
- (2) to products or services provided under contracts entered into before the date on which the President publishes his intention to take the Presidential action.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–292, title IV, § 406, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2808.)