---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1b"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "1b"
heading: "Requirements of Secretary of the Treasury regarding exemption of foreign exchange swaps and foreign exchange forwards from definition of the term “swap”"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/1b"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Commodity Exchanges"
---

# §1b. Requirements of Secretary of the Treasury regarding exemption of foreign exchange swaps and foreign exchange forwards from definition of the term “swap”

- (a) **Required considerations—** In determining whether to exempt [foreign exchange swaps](/usc/7/1a.md?p=25) and [foreign exchange forwards](/usc/7/1a.md?p=24) from the definition of the term “[swap](/usc/7/1a.md?p=47-A)”, the [Secretary](/usc/7/1a.md?p=47-E-v) of the Treasury (referred to in this section as the “[Secretary](/usc/7/1a.md?p=47-E-v)”) shall consider—
  - (1) whether the required trading and clearing of [foreign exchange swaps](/usc/7/1a.md?p=25) and [foreign exchange forwards](/usc/7/1a.md?p=24) would create systemic risk, lower transparency, or threaten the financial stability of the United States;
  - (2) whether [foreign exchange swaps](/usc/7/1a.md?p=25) and [foreign exchange forwards](/usc/7/1a.md?p=24) are already subject to a regulatory scheme that is materially comparable to that established by this chapter for other classes of [swaps](/usc/7/1a.md?p=47-A);
  - (3) the extent to which [bank](/usc/7/27.md?p=a) regulators of participants in the foreign [exchange](/usc/7/1a.md?p=1-D) [market](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) provide adequate supervision, including capital and margin requirements;
  - (4) the extent of adequate payment and settlement systems; and
  - (5) the use of a potential exemption of [foreign exchange swaps](/usc/7/1a.md?p=25) and [foreign exchange forwards](/usc/7/1a.md?p=24) to evade otherwise applicable regulatory requirements.
- (b) **Determination—** If the [Secretary](/usc/7/1a.md?p=47-E-v) makes a determination to exempt [foreign exchange swaps](/usc/7/1a.md?p=25) and [foreign exchange forwards](/usc/7/1a.md?p=24) from the definition of the term “[swap](/usc/7/1a.md?p=47-A)”, the [Secretary](/usc/7/1a.md?p=47-E-v) shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a determination that contains—
  - (1) an explanation regarding why [foreign exchange swaps](/usc/7/1a.md?p=25) and [foreign exchange forwards](/usc/7/1a.md?p=24) are qualitatively different from other classes of [swaps](/usc/7/1a.md?p=47-A) in a way that would make the [foreign exchange swaps](/usc/7/1a.md?p=25) and [foreign exchange forwards](/usc/7/1a.md?p=24) ill-suited for regulation as [swaps](/usc/7/1a.md?p=47-A); and
  - (2) an identification of the objective differences of [foreign exchange swaps](/usc/7/1a.md?p=25) and [foreign exchange forwards](/usc/7/1a.md?p=24) with respect to standard [swaps](/usc/7/1a.md?p=47-A) that warrant an exempted status.
- (c) **Effect of determination—** A determination by the [Secretary](/usc/7/1a.md?p=47-E-v) under [subsection (b)](#b) shall not exempt any [foreign exchange swaps](/usc/7/1a.md?p=25) and [foreign exchange forwards](/usc/7/1a.md?p=24) traded on a designated contract [market](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) or [swap execution facility](/usc/7/1a.md?p=50) from any applicable antifraud and antimanipulation provision under this chapter.[^1]

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, § 1b, as added Pub. L. 111–203, title VII, § 722(h), July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 1674.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (c), was in the original “this title”, and was translated as reading “this Act”, meaning act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, 42 Stat. 998, which is classified generally to this chapter, to reflect the probable intent of Congress, because act Sept. 21, 1922, does not contain titles.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on the later of 360 days after July 21, 2010, or, to the extent a provision of subtitle A (§§ 711–754) of title VII of Pub. L. 111–203 requires a rulemaking, not less than 60 days after publication of the final rule or regulation implementing such provision of subtitle A, see section 754 of Pub. L. 111–203, set out as an Effective Date of 2010 Amendment note under section 1a of this title.