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22 U.S.C. § 6448 — Effects on existing contracts
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The President shall not be required to apply or maintain any Presidential action under this part—
(1) in the case of procurement of defense articles or defense services—
(A) under existing contracts or subcontracts, including the exercise of options for production quantities, to satisfy requirements essential to the national security of the United States;
(B) if the President determines in writing and so reports to Congress that the person or other entity to which the Presidential action would otherwise be applied is a sole source supplier of the defense articles or services, that the defense articles or services are essential, and that alternative sources are not readily or reasonably available; or
(C) if the President determines in writing and so reports to Congress that such articles or services are essential to the national security under defense coproduction agreements; or
(2) to products or services provided under contracts entered into before the date on which the President publishes his intention to take the Presidential action.
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The President shall not be required to apply or maintain any Presidential action under this part—
(1) in the case of procurement of defense articles or defense services—
(A) under existing contracts or subcontracts, including the exercise of options for production quantities, to satisfy requirements essential to the national security of the United States;
(B) if the President determines in writing and so reports to Congress that the person or other entity to which the Presidential action would otherwise be applied is a sole source supplier of the defense articles or services, that the defense articles or services are essential, and that alternative sources are not readily or reasonably available; or
(C) if the President determines in writing and so reports to Congress that such articles or services are essential to the national security under defense coproduction agreements; or
(2) to products or services provided under contracts entered into before the date on which the President publishes his intention to take the Presidential action.
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**(a) Response to particularly severe violations of religious freedom**
(1) **United States policy** — It shall be the policy of the United States—
(A) to oppose particularly severe violations of religious freedom that are or have been engaged in or tolerated by the governments of foreign countries; and
(B) to promote the right to freedom of religion in those countries through the actions described in subsection (c).
(2) **Requirement of Presidential action** — Whenever the President determines that the government of a foreign country has engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom, the President shall oppose such violations and promote the right to religious freedom through one or more of the actions described in subsection (c).
**(b) Designations of countries of particular concern for religious freedom**
(1) **Annual review**
(A) *In general* — Not later than 90 days after the date on which each Annual Report is submitted under [section 6412(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section6412/b&num=0&edition=prelim), the President shall—
(i) review the status of religious freedom in each foreign country to determine whether the government of that country has engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom in each such country during the preceding 12 months or longer;
(ii) designate each country the government of which has engaged in or tolerated violations described in clause (i) as a country of particular concern for religious freedom; and
(iii) designate each country that engaged in or tolerated severe violations of religious freedom during the previous year, but does not meet, in the opinion of the President at the time of publicati
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TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
§ 6448
(B) if the President determines in writing
and so reports to Congress that the person or
other entity to which the Presidential ac-
tion would otherwise be applied is a sole
source supplier of the defense articles or
services, that the defense articles or services
are essential, and that alternative sources
are not readily or reasonably available; or
(C) if the President determines in writing
and so reports to Congress that such articles
or services are essential to the national se-
curity under defense coproduction agree-
ments; or
(2) to products or services provided under
contracts entered into before the date on
which the President publishes his intention to
take the Presidential action.
(Pub. L. 105–292, title IV, § 406, Oct. 27, 1998, 112
Stat. 2808.)
§ 6447. Presidential waiver
(a) In general
Subject to subsection (c), the President may
waive, for a single, 180-day period, the applica-
tion of any of the actions described in para-
graphs (9) through (15) of section 6445(a) of this
title (or commensurate action in substitution
thereto) with respect to a country, if the Presi-
dent determines and so reports to the appro-
priate congressional committees that—
(1) the exercise of such waiver authority
would further the purposes of this chapter; or
(2) the important national interest of the
United States requires the exercise of such
waiver authority.
(b) Additional authority
Subject to subsection (c), the President may
waive, for any additional specified period of
time after the 180-day period described in sub-
section (a), the application of any of the actions
described in paragraphs (9) through (15) of sec-
tion 6445(a) of this title (or a commensurate sub-
stitute action) with
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