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[CITE: 22USC2724]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                     CHAPTER 38--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
Sec. 2724. Fees for commercial services


(a) Authority to charge fee

    (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary of State is authorized 
to charge a fee to cover the actual or estimated cost of providing any 
person, firm or organization (other than agencies of the United States 
Government) with commercial services at posts abroad on matters within 
the authority of the Department of State.
    (2) The authority of this section may be exercised only in countries 
where the Department of Commerce does not perform commercial services 
for which it collects fees.

(b) Use of fees

    Funds collected under the authority of subsection (a) of this 
section shall be deposited as an offsetting collection to any Department 
of State appropriation to recover the costs of providing commercial 
services. Funds deposited under this subsection shall remain available 
for obligation through September 30 of the fiscal year following the 
fiscal year in which the funds were deposited.

(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 841, title I, Sec. 52, as added Pub. L. 103-236, 
title I, Sec. 136, Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 396; amended Pub. L. 105-
277, div. G, subdiv. B, title XXII, Sec. 2204, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 
2681-808.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105-277 inserted at end ``Funds deposited 
under this subsection shall remain available for obligation through 
September 30 of the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the 
funds were deposited.''
