---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 9672"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "9672"
heading: "Additionality and avoidance of market distortion"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/9672"
units:
  - "Chapter 103 — Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development"
  - "Subchapter V — Conditions, Restrictions, and Prohibitions"
---

# §9672. Additionality and avoidance of market distortion

- (a) **In general—** Before the Corporation provides [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) for a project under subchapter II of this chapter, the Corporation shall ensure that private sector entities are afforded an opportunity to [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) the project.
- (b) **Safeguards, policies, and guidelines—** The Corporation shall develop appropriate safeguards, policies, and guidelines to ensure that [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) provided by the Corporation under subchapter II of this chapter—
  - (1) supplements and encourages, but does not compete with, private sector [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12);
  - (2) operates according to internationally recognized best practices and standards with respect to ensuring the avoidance of market distorting government subsidies and the crowding out of private sector lending; and
  - (3) does not have a significant adverse impact on United States employment.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 115–254, div. F, title V, § 1452, Oct. 5, 2018, 132 Stat. 3509.)