---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 4586"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "4586"
heading: "Rule of construction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/4586"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Defense Production"
  - "Subchapter IV — Prohibition and Notification on Investments Relating to Covered National Security Transactions"
---

# §4586. Rule of construction


Nothing in this subchapter may be construed to negate the authority of the President under any authority, process, regulation, investigation, enforcement measure, or review provided by or established under any other provision of Federal law, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ([50 U.S.C. 1701](/usc/50/1701.md) et seq.), or any other authority of the President or the Congress under the Constitution of the United States.


## Source credit

(Sept. 8, 1950, ch. 932, title VIII, § 806, as added Pub. L. 119–60, div. H, title LXXXV, § 8521, Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1930.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, referred to in text, is title II of Pub. L. 95–223, Dec. 28, 1977, 91 Stat. 1626, which is classified generally to chapter 35 (§ 1701 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1701 of this title and Tables.