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[CITE: 22USC290k-9]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
        SUBCHAPTER XXVI--MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY
 
Sec. 290k-9. Jurisdiction of United States courts and 
        enforcement of arbitral awards
        
    For the purposes of any civil action which may be brought within the 
United States, its territories or possessions, or the Commonwealth of 
Puerto Rico, by or against the Agency in accordance with the Convention, 
including an action brought to enforce an arbitral award against the 
Agency, the Agency shall be deemed to be an inhabitant of the Federal 
judicial district in which its principal office within the United States 
or its agent appointed for the purpose of accepting service or notice of 
service is located, and any such action to which the Agency shall be a 
party shall be deemed to arise under the laws of the United States, and 
the district courts of the United States, including the courts 
enumerated in section 460 of title 28, shall have original jurisdiction 
of any such action. When the Agency is a defendant in any action in a 
State court, it may at any time before the trial thereof remove the 
action into the appropriate district court of the United States by 
following the procedure for removal provided in section 1446 of title 
28.

(Pub. L. 100-202, Sec. 101(e) [title I], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329-
131, 1329-134.)

                          Codification

    Section is based on section 412 of title IV of H.R. 3750, One 
Hundredth Congress, as introduced Dec. 11, 1987, and enacted into law by 
Pub. L. 100-202.
