12-U.S.C.-635D
§635D – Issuance of Debentures, Bonds, Etc.; Obligations Redeemable; Payment of Interest; Obligations Purchasable By Secretary of The Treasury; Public-Debt Transactions
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Title 12 > Chapter 6A > Subchapter I > Section 635d
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- Reference: Section 635d
- Legend: §635D – Issuance of Debentures, Bonds, Etc.; Obligations Redeemable; Payment of Interest; Obligations Purchasable By Secretary of The Treasury; Public-Debt Transactions
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
The Export-Import Bank of the United States is authorized to issue from time to time for purchase by the Secretary of the Treasury its notes, debentures, bonds, or other obligations; but the aggregate amount of such obligations outstanding at any one time shall not exceed $6,000,000,000. Such obligations shall be redeemable at the option of the bank before maturity in such manner as may be stipulated in such obligations and shall have such maturity as may be determined by the Board of Directors of the bank with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. Each such Bank obligation issued to the Treasury after January 4, 1975, shall bear interest at a rate not less than the current average yield on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States of comparable maturity during the month preceding the issuance of the obligation of the Bank as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to purchase any obligations of the Bank issued hereunder and for such purpose the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use as a public-debt transaction the proceeds of any securities issued after July 31, 1945, under chapter 31 of title 31, and the purposes for which securities may be issued under that chapter are extended to include such purpose. Payment under this section of the purchase price of such obligations of the Bank and repayments thereof by the Bank shall be treated as public-debt transactions of the United States.
(July 31, 1945, ch. 341, §5, formerly §6, 59 Stat. 528; June 9, 1947, ch. 101, §2, 61 Stat. 131; Oct. 3, 1951, ch. 445, §1(a), 65 Stat. 367; Aug. 9, 1954, ch. 660, §3(a), 68 Stat. 678; Pub. L. 85–424, §1(1), May 22, 1958, 72 Stat. 133; Pub. L. 90–267, §1(a), Mar. 13, 1968, 82 Stat. 47; Pub. L. 93–646, §7, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2336; renumbered §5, Pub. L. 102–429, title I, §121(c)(2), Oct. 21, 1992, 106 Stat. 2199.)
Codification
Chapter 31 of title 31 and that chapter substituted in text for the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended and that Act, respectively, on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, §4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 5 of act July 31, 1945, ch. 341, was classified to section 635c of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102–429, §121(c)(1).
Amendments
1975—Pub. L. 93–646 substituted provision making mandatory that each Bank obligation bear interest at a rate not less than the current average yield on outstanding obligations of comparable maturity, for provision requiring that only the current average rate be taken into consideration.
1968—Pub. L. 90–267 changed name of Export-Import Bank of Washington to Export-Import Bank of the United States.
1958—Pub. L. 85–424 substituted $6,000,000,000 for $4,000,000,000.
1954—Act Aug. 9, 1954, substituted $4,000,000,000 for three and one-half times the authorized capital stock of the Bank.
1951—Act Oct. 3, 1951, substituted three and one-half for two and one-half.
1947—Act June 9, 1947, struck out and bear such rate of interest before as may be determined in the second sentence and added the third sentence relating to the rate of interest on obligations.
Effective Date of 1954 Amendment
For effective date of amendment by act Aug. 9, 1954, see note set out under section 635a of this title.
Board of Directors
A Board of Directors reestablished for the Export-Import Bank of Washington, see note under section 635 of this title.
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