---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 9903"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "9903"
heading: "Consolidated report on unified investment climate statement and country commercial guide"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/9903"
units:
  - "Chapter 106 — Championing American Business Through Diplomacy"
---

# §9903. Consolidated report on unified investment climate statement and country commercial guide

- (a) **In general—** The Secretary of State and the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of Commerce shall jointly produce and make publicly available on a United States Government internet website an annual country- and region-specific report regarding commercial relations with [foreign countries](/usc/22/2321c.md?p=2) and regions and safeguarding United States economic and business interests abroad, including with regard to United States exports and investments, including by small- and medium-size enterprises.
- (b) **Matters to be included—** Each report required under [subsection (a)](#a) shall include the following with respect to each country or region covered by each such report:
  - (1) Information about doing business in each country or region.
  - (2) Background information about each country’s or region’s political environment.
  - (3) Information about selling United States products and services in each country or region.
  - (4) Leading sectors for United States exports and investment in each country or region.
  - (5) Information about trade regulations, customs, and standards in each country or region, such as—
    - (A) information on import tariffs; and
    - (B) documentation about which United States businesses should be aware when exporting, including any prohibited items or temporary entry procedures.
  - (6) Investment climate statements describing each country’s or region’s openness to foreign investments, such as information relating to each country’s or region’s—
    - (A) investment policies;
    - (B) market barriers;
    - (C) business risks;
    - (D) legal and regulatory system, including dispute resolution;
    - (E) level of public and private sector corruption;
    - (F) level of political violence and instability;
    - (G) adherence to internationally recognized core labor standards; and
    - (H) protection of property rights.
  - (7) Information about trade and project financing in each country or region, such as each country’s or region’s—
    - (A) banking and financial system, and how United States businesses typically get paid;
    - (B) foreign exchange controls; and
    - (C) important sources of funding for project financing.
  - (8) Relevant business travel information and business customs in each country or region.
  - (9) Information about services and personnel of the diplomatic mission of the United States available to United States businesses to [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) their activities in each country or region.
  - (10) Any significant trade or commercial agreement that exists between the United States and each country or region.
  - (11) A point of contact at the diplomatic or consular mission of the United States in each country or region for United States businesses.
- (c) **Rule of construction—** Nothing in this section may be construed to require the duplication of existing reports.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–94, div. J, title VII, § 707, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 3071.)