---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6481"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6481"
heading: "Business codes of conduct"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6481"
units:
  - "Chapter 73 — International Religious Freedom"
  - "Subchapter V — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §6481. Business codes of conduct

- (a) **Congressional finding—** Congress recognizes the increasing importance of transnational corporations as global actors, and their potential for providing positive leadership in their host countries in the area of human rights.
- (b) **Sense of Congress—** It is the sense of the Congress that transnational corporations operating overseas, particularly those corporations operating in countries the [governments](/usc/22/6402.md?p=8) of which have engaged in or tolerated [violations of religious freedom](/usc/22/6402.md?p=16), as identified in the [Annual Report](/usc/22/6402.md?p=2), should adopt codes of conduct—
  - (1) upholding the right to freedom of religion of their employees; and
  - (2) ensuring that a worker’s religious views and peaceful practices of belief in no way affect, or be allowed to affect, the status or terms of his or her employment.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–292, title VII, § 701, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2815.)