Files
Fabio 00a184bb3c Legal corpus: U.S. Code titles 1–11 from pinned OLRC XML (11,050 sections)
Raw OLRC USLM XML zips @ release 119-100 (retrieved 2026-07-04 via
Atlas depot), ingested with the standard pipeline: raw snapshot ->
per-section OKF markdown -> manifest + checksums. Title 52 untouched.
LegalText: 171 -> 11,221. Titles 12-54 await a clean OLRC retry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 09:52:37 -04:00

60 lines
3.0 KiB
Markdown
Raw Permalink Blame History

This file contains ambiguous Unicode characters
This file contains Unicode characters that might be confused with other characters. If you think that this is intentional, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to reveal them.
---
type: "LegalText"
title: "7 U.S.C. § 1738b"
description: "Eligibility for benefits under Facility"
jurisdiction: "us"
corpus: "united_states_code"
kind: "code_section"
title_number: 7
title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
chapter_number: "41"
chapter_name: "FOOD FOR PEACE"
section: "1738b"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1738b"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
source: "official"
source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc07@119-100.zip"
source_identifier: "/us/usc/t7/s1738b"
source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-07/usc07.xml"
source_hash: "07066a5f735db8277ee2d67af5f5413998928f3a4bf4125e59abec1c7fdecd35"
raw_snapshot_hash: "50edab1679a711653797362c0aeb8f2273303fe473fb7fa16df1ee76bdd6e984"
text_hash: "a67abae0be43ec426ba8be02df5954b6ba13718a81b871b1ab7f174419c94289"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
confidence: "official"
tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
---
# 7 U.S.C. § 1738b - Eligibility for benefits under Facility
## Text
(a) Requirements To be eligible for benefits from the Facility under this subchapter, a country shall—
(1) be a Latin American or Caribbean country;
(2) have in effect or have received approval for, or, as appropriate in exceptional circumstances, be making significant progress towards the establishment of—
(A) an International Monetary Fund (hereafter referred to in this subchapter as the “IMF”) standby arrangement, extended IMF arrangement, or an arrangement under the structural adjustment facility or enhanced structural adjustment facility, or in exceptional circumstances, an IMF-monitored program or its equivalent; and
(B) as appropriate, structural or sectoral adjustment loans from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (hereafter referred to in this subchapter as the “World Bank”) or the International Development Association (hereafter referred to in this subchapter as the “IDA”);
(3) have placed into effect major investment reforms in conjunction with an Inter-American Development Bank (hereafter referred to as the “IDB”) loan or otherwise be implementing, or making significant progress towards an open investment regime; and
(4) if appropriate, have agreed with its commercial bank lenders on a satisfactory financing program, including, as appropriate, debt or debt service reduction.
(b) Eligibility determination The President shall determine whether a country is an eligible country for purposes of subsection (a).
(July 10, 1954, ch. 469, title VI, § 603, as added Pub. L. 101624, title XV, § 1512, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3658; amended Pub. L. 102237, title III, § 302, Dec. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1855.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Amendments1991—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 102237 inserted hyphen between “Inter” and “American”.
Executive Documents
Delegation of Functions For delegation of functions of President under subsec. (b) of this section, see section 1 of Ex. Ord. No. 13345, July 8, 2004, 69 F.R. 41901, set out as a note under section 1738 of this title.