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22 U.S.C. § 3141 — Congressional findings
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The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The United States Government collects substantial amounts of information from foreign owned or controlled business enterprises or affiliates operating in the United States.
(2) Additional analysis and presentation of this information is desirable to assist the public debate on the issue of foreign direct investments in the United States.
(3) Information collected from foreign owned or controlled firms by the Bureau of Economic Analysis has serious analytical limitations because it is largely collected on an “enterprise” basis that does not permit an adequate analysis by industry groupings.
(4) Statistical and analytic comparisons of the performance of foreign owned or controlled businesses operating within the United States with other business enterprises operating within the same industry can be accomplished under sections 3101(b) and 3104(c) of this title, and under Executive Order Numbered 11961, without the need to collect additional information, by sharing with other authorized Government agencies the employer identification numbers maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
(5) Public disclosures of confidential business information collected by the United States Government relating to international direct investment flows could cause serious damage to the accuracy of the statistical data base.
(6) The Government Accountability Office may have limited access to Government data on foreign direct investment.
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The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The United States Government collects substantial amounts of information from foreign owned or controlled business enterprises or affiliates operating in the United States.
(2) Additional analysis and presentation of this information is desirable to assist the public debate on the issue of foreign direct investments in the United States.
(3) Information collected from foreign owned or controlled firms by the Bureau of Economic Analysis has serious analytical limitations because it is largely collected on an “enterprise” basis that does not permit an adequate analysis by industry groupings.
(4) Statistical and analytic comparisons of the performance of foreign owned or controlled businesses operating within the United States with other business enterprises operating within the same industry can be accomplished under sections 3101(b) and 3104(c) of this title, and under Executive Order Numbered 11961, without the need to collect additional information, by sharing with other authorized Government agencies the employer identification numbers maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
(5) Public disclosures of confidential business information collected by the United States Government relating to international direct investment flows could cause serious damage to the accuracy of the statistical data base.
(6) The Government Accountability Office may have limited access to Government data on foreign direct investment.
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**(a) Findings** The Congress finds and declares that—
(1) the United States Government is presently authorized to collect limited amounts of information on United States investment abroad and foreign investment in the United States;
(2) international investment has increased rapidly within recent years;
(3) such investment significantly affects the economies of the United States and other nations;
(4) international efforts to obtain information on the activities of multinational enterprises and other international investors have accelerated recently;
(5) the potential consequences of international investment cannot be evaluated accurately because the United States Government lacks sufficient information on such investment and its actual or possible effects on the national security, commerce, employment, inflation, general welfare, and foreign policy of the United States;
(6) accurate and comprehensive information on international investment is needed by the Congress to develop an informed United States policy on such investment;
(7) United States service industries engaged in interstate and foreign commerce account for a substantial part of the labor force and gross national product of the United States economy, and such commerce is rapidly increasing;
(8) international trade and services is an important issue for international negotiations and deserves priority in the attention of governments, international agencies, negotiators, and the private sector; and
(9) existing estimates of international investment and trade in services, collected under existing legal authority, are limited in scope and are based on outdated statistical bases, reports, and information which are insufficient for policy formulation and decisionmaking.
**(b) Purpose** It is therefore t
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**(a)** Neither the Secretary, nor any other officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof, or local government census liaison, may, except as provided in section 8 or 16 or chapter 10 of this title or section 210 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 or section 2(f) of the Census of Agriculture Act of 1997—
(1) use the information furnished under the provisions of this title for any purpose other than the statistical purposes for which it is supplied; or
(2) make any publication whereby the data furnished by any particular establishment or individual under this title can be identified; or
(3) permit anyone other than the sworn officers and employees of the Department or bureau or agency thereof to examine the individual reports.
No department, bureau, agency, officer, or employee of the Government, except the Secretary in carrying out the purposes of this title, shall require, for any reason, copies of census reports which have been retained by any such establishment or individual. Copies of census reports which have been so retained shall be immune from legal process, and shall not, without the consent of the individual or establishment concerned, be admitted as evidence or used for any purpose in any action, suit, or other judicial or administrative proceeding.
**(b)** The provisions of subsection (a) of this section relating to the confidential treatment of data for particular individuals and establishments, shall not apply to the censuses of governments provided for by subchapter III of chapter 5 of this title, nor to interim current data provided for by subchapter IV of chapter 5 of this title as to the subjects covered by censuses of governments, with re
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**(a) Exchange of Information.—** The Bureau of the Census shall exchange with the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce information collected under this title, and under the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act, that pertains to any business enterprise that is operating in the United States, if the Secretary of Commerce determines such information is appropriate to augment and improve the quality of data collected under the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act. Information provided to the Bureau of Economic Analysis by the Bureau of the Census shall be only those data collected directly from respondents by the Bureau of the Census.
**(b) Requests for Information.—** The Director of the Bureau requesting information under this section shall make the request in writing and shall certify that the information will be used only for statistical activities performed to improve the quality of data collected under the authority of title 13, United States Code, and the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act.
**(c) Definition.—** As used in subsection (a), the terms “business enterprise” and “United States” have the meanings given those terms in section 3 of the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act.
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**(a) In general** The Comptroller General, to the extent permitted by law, including [section 3144 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3144&num=0&edition=prelim), is authorized to review the information described in [section 3142(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3142/b&num=0&edition=prelim) for purposes of preparing the reports referred to in subsection (b) of this section. Nothing in this section authorizes disclosure of any individually identifiable data or information in any form that can be associated with or otherwise identify, directly or indirectly, any person, including any enterprise or establishment.
**(b) Reports** Consistent with the provisions of this section, the Comptroller General may submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on Ways and Means, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, and to the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress reports—
(1) analyzing reports issued by the Secretary of Commerce under [section 3142 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3142&num=0&edition=prelim);
(2) making recommendations for changes in the analysis done in the report due the following year under [section 3142 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3142&num=0&edition=prelim);
(3) making recommendations for improving the collection by respective Federal agencies of data on foreign direct investment in the United States, including use of private sector data, and improving survey questionnaires to obtain useful and consistent
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**(a) Confidentiality**
(1) Those officers and employees who have access to information under this Act to which the provisions of [section 9 of title 13](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title13-section9&num=0&edition=prelim) apply must have been sworn, as provided for in section 23(c) of such title, to observe the limitations imposed by section 9(a) of such title and to be subject to the provisions of section 214 of such title to the same extent as such section applies to officers or employees of the Bureau of the Census.
(2) Only those officers and employees who have sworn to observe the provisions of section 5(c) of the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act ([22 U.S.C. 3104(c)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3104/c&num=0&edition=prelim)) may have access under this Act to information to which such provisions apply, and such officers and employees are subject to the penalties for improper disclosure of such information provided in section 5(e) of that Act [[22 U.S.C. 3104(e)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3104/e&num=0&edition=prelim)] to the same extent as such section applies to officers or employees designated to perform functions under that Act [[22 U.S.C. 3101](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3101&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.].
(3) Those officers and employees referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this section 11 So in original. Probably should be “subsection”. shall be subject to any other restriction or penalty imposed by law with respect to disclosure of information to which such officers or employees have access under this Act.
**(b) Violations and penalties** Whoever is in
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**(a) In general** Nothing in this Act or the amendments made by this Act shall be construed to require any business enterprise or any of its officers, directors, shareholders, or employees, or any other person, to provide information beyond that which is required before November 7, 1990.
**(b) Implementation** All departments and agencies implementing this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall, with respect to surveys or questionnaires used in such implementation—
(1) eliminate questions that are no longer necessary,
(2) cooperate with one another in order to ensure that questions asked are consistent among the departments and agencies, and
(3) develop new questions in order to obtain more refined statistics and analyses,
consistent with the purposes of the provisions of law amended by this Act and the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980.11 See References in Text note below.
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For purposes of this Act—
(1) the terms “foreign”, “direct investment”, “international investment”, “United States”, “business enterprise”, “foreign person”, and “United States person” have the meanings given those terms in [section 3102 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3102&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(2) the term “foreign direct investment in the United States” means direct investment by foreign persons in any business enterprise that is a United States person.
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TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
§ 3141
ment, personnel, and facilities of any agency or
instrumentality of the United States Govern-
ment.
(Pub. L. 94–472, § 7, Oct. 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 2064.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
Section 5703 of title 5, referred to in subsec. (a), was
amended generally by Pub. L. 94–22, § 4, May 19, 1975, 89
Stat. 85, and, as so amended, does not contain a subsec.
(b).
§ 3107. Consultations; creation of independent
public advisory committees
Officials performing functions pursuant to this
chapter shall secure balanced, diverse, and re-
sponsible views from qualified persons rep-
resenting business, organized labor, and the aca-
demic community and may, where appropriate,
create such independent public advisory com-
mittees as are necessary to carry out the pur-
poses of this chapter.
(Pub. L. 94–472, § 8, Oct. 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 2064;
Pub. L. 95–381, § 3, Sept. 22, 1978, 92 Stat. 726;
Pub. L. 97–33, § 4, Aug. 7, 1981, 95 Stat. 171.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1981—Pub. L. 97–33 struck out designation ‘‘(a)’’ be-
fore ‘‘Officials performing functions’’ and struck out
subsec. (b) which provided that the President review
the results of studies and surveys conducted pursuant
to this chapter and report annually to the Committee
on International Relations [Foreign Affairs] of the
House of Representatives and the appropriate commit-
tees of the Senate on any trends or developments which
might have had national policy implications and which
in the President’s opinion warranted the review of the
respective committees.
1978—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95–381 substituted ref-
erences to President, for references to Council on Inter-
national Economic Policy.
Executive Documents
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 11962
Ex. O
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