§ 3145. — Construction of foreign direct investment and international financial data provisions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC3145]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 46A--FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL DATA
Sec. 3145. Construction of foreign direct investment and
international financial data provisions
(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.\1\
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\1\ See References in Text note below.
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(Pub. L. 101-533, Sec. 9, Nov. 7, 1990, 104 Stat. 2351.)
References in Text
This Act or the amendments made by this Act, referred to in text, is
Pub. L. 101-533, Nov. 7, 1990, 104 Stat. 2344, known as the Foreign
Direct Investment and International Financial Data Improvements Act of
1990, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out
under section 3141 of this title and Tables.
The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, referred to in subsec. (b), is
Pub. L. 96-511, Dec. 11, 1980, 94 Stat. 2812, as amended, which was
classified principally to chapter 35 (Sec. 3501 et seq.) of Title 44,
Public Printing and Documents, prior to the general amendment of that
chapter by Pub. L. 104-13, Sec. 2, May 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 163. For
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1980
Amendment note set out under section 101 of Title 44 and Tables.
