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cease to be classed as an international organization for the purposes of this title.2

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Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the Movement of Migrants from Europe (now the
Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration).

Organization of American States (includes the Pan American Union, previously designated Feb. 19.
1946, by Executive Order No. 9698).

World Meteorological Organization.

International Finance Corporation.

International Atomic Energy Agency (included the Preparatory Commission of the International
Atomic Energy Agency).

Universal Postal Union.

International Hydrographic Bureau.

Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization.

Pan American Health Organization (includes the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, previously designated July 11, 1946, by Executive Order No. 9751).

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June 25, 1948

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Dec. 30, 1948

World Health Organization.

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Nov. 25, 1949

South Pacific Commission.

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June 27, 1950

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Caribbean Organization.

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Inter-American Development Bank.

Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission.

International Pacific Halibut Commission.

International Coffee Organization.

Interim Communications Satellite Committee.

International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium.

International Cotton Institute.

International Secretariat for Volunteer Service.

Lake Ontario Claims Tribunal (status revoked by Executive Order 11439, Dec. 7, 19681
United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI).

Customs Cooperation Council.

International Telecommunications Satellite Organization.

European Space Agency (superseding Executive Orders 11318 and 11351).
Organization of African Unity.

World Intellectual Property Organization.

International Development Association.

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes

International Telecommunications Satellite Organization.

The African Development Fund.

The International Fertilizer Development Center.

International Maritime Satellite Organization.

The Multinational Force and Observers.

The International Food Policy Research Institute (except for those provided by sec. 2(a)-(c), the last clause of sec. 2(d), and sec. 7(b).

The African Development Bank.

The International Criminal Police Organization (except for those provided by sec. 2(c), the portions of secs. 2(d) and 3 relating to customs duties and federal internal-revenue importation taxes, and secs. 4 through 6).

2 The following international organizations are currently designated by the President as public international organizations entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions and immunities of the International Organizations Immunities Act:

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The International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico.
World Tourism Organization.

Inter-American Investment Corporation.

Commission for the Study of Alternatives to the Panama Canal.
Pacific Salmon Commission

United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
International Committee of the Red Cross.

Multilateral Investment Guarantee Organization.
Offices of the Commission of the European Communities.
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States.
International Fund for Agricultural Development.
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
European Space Agency.

North Pacific Marine Science Organization.
North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission.
Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
Commission for Labor Cooperation.

Border Environment Cooperation Commission.
North American Development Bank.

SEC. 2.3 International organizations shall enjoy the status, immunities, exemptions, and privileges set forth in this section, as follows:

(a) International organizations shall, to the extent consistent with the instrument creating them, possess the capacity

(i) to contract;

(ii) to acquire and dispose of real and personal property;
(iii) to institute legal proceedings.

(b) International organizations, their property and their assets, wherever located, and by whomsoever held, shall enjoy the same immunity from suit and every form of judicial process as is enjoyed by foreign governments, except to the extent that such organizations may expressly waive their immunity for the purposes of any proceedings or by the terms of any contract.

(c) Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable.

(d) Insofar as concerns customs duties and internal-revenue taxes imposed upon or by reason of importation, and the procedures in connection therewith; the registration of foreign agents; and the treatment of official communications, the privileges, exemptions, and immunities to which international organizations shall be entitled shall be those accorded under similar circumstances to foreign governments.

SEC. 3.4 Pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Customs with approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, the baggage and effects of aliens, officers and employees of international organizations, or of aliens designated by foreign governments to serve as their representatives in or to such organizations, or of the families, suites, and servants of such officers, employees, or representatives shall be admitted (when imported in connection with the

322 U.S.C. 288a.

4 22 U.S.C. 288b.

arrival of the owner) free of customs duties and free of internalrevenue taxes imposed upon or by reason of importation.

SEC. 4.5 The Internal Revenue Code is hereby amended as follows:

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(a) Effective with respect to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1943, section 116(c), relating to the exclusion from gross income of income of foreign governments, is amended to read as follows:

"(c) INCOME OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS AND OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.-The income of foreign governments or international organizations received from investments in the United States in stocks, bonds, or other domestic securities, owned by such foreign governments or by international organizations, or from interest on deposits in banks in the United States of moneys belonging to such foreign governments or international organizations, or from any other source within the United States, shall not be included in gross income and shall be exempt from taxation under this subtitle."

(b) Effective with respect to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1943, section 116(h)(1), relating to the exclusion from gross income of amounts paid employees of foreign governments, is amended to read as follows:

“(1) RULE FOR EXCLUSION.-Wages, fees, or salary of any employee of a foreign government or of an international organization or of the Commonwealth of the Philippines (including a consular or other officer, or a nondiplomatic representative), received as compensation for official services to such government, international organization, or such Commonwealth

"(A) If such employee is not a citizen of the United States, or is a citizen of the Commonwealth of the Philippines (whether or not a citizen of the United States); and

"(B) If, in the case of an employee of a foreign government or of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the services are of a character similar to those performed by employees of the Government of the United States in foreign countries or in the Commonwealth of the Philippines, as the case may be; and

"(C) If, in the case of an employee of a foreign government or the Commonwealth of the Philippines the foreign government or the Commonwealth grants an equivalent exemption to employees of the Government of the United States performing similar services in such foreign country or such Commonwealth, as the case may be."

(c) Effective January 1, 1946, section 1426(b), defining the term "employment" for the purposes of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, is amended (1) by striking out that word "or" at the end of paragraph (14), (2) by striking out the period at the end of paragraph (15) and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon and the word and (3) by inserting at the end of the subsection of the following new paragraph:

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5 The provisions of sec. 4 are contained in title 26 of the United States Code, as noted below. 626 U.S.C. 892.

7 26 U.S.C. 893(a).

"(16) Service performed in the employ of an international organization".

(d) Effective January 1, 1946, section 1607(c), defining the term "employment" for the purposes of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, is amended (1) by striking out the word "or" at the end of paragraph (14), (2) by striking out the word "or" at the end of paragraph (14), (2) by striking out the period at the end of paragraph (15) and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon and the word "or," and (3) by inserting at the end of the subsection the following new paragraph;

"(16) Service performed in the employ of an international organization."

(e) 10 Section 1621(a)(5), relating to the definition of "wages" for the purpose of collection of income tax at the source, is amended by inserting after the words "foreign government" the words “or an international organization".

(f) 11 Section 3466(a), relating to exemption from communications taxes is amended by inserting immediately after the words "the District of Columbia" a comma and the words "or an international organization".

(g) 12 Section 3469(f)(1), relating to exemption from the tax on transportation of persons, is amended by inserting immediately after the words "the District of Columbia" a comma and the words "or an international organization".

(h) 13 Section 3475(5)(1), relating to exemption from the tax on transportation of property, is amended by inserting immediately after the words "the District of Columbia" a comma and the words "or an international organization".

(i) Section 3797(a), relating to definitions, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph as follows:

"(18) 14 International organization.-The term 'international organization' means a public international organization entitled to enjoy privileges, exemptions, and immunities as an international organization under the International Organizations Immunities Act."

SEC. 5. (a) 15 Effective January 1, 1946, section 209(b) of the Social Security Act, defining the term "employment" for the purposes of title II of the Act, is amended (1) by striking out the word "or" at the end of paragraph (14), (2) by striking out the period at the end of paragraph (15) and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon and the word "or", and (3) by inserting at the end of the subsection the following new paragraph:

“(16) Service performed in the employ of an international organization entitled to enjoy privileges, exemptions, and immunities as an international organization under the International Organizations Immunities Act."

26 U.S.C. 3121(b*15). * 26 U.S.C. 3306(c(16). 10 26 U.S.C. 3401(a)5).

11 26 U.S.C. 4253(c).

12 26 U.S.C. 4263(b).

13 26 U.S.C. 4272A(d), relating to exemption from tax on transportation property, repealed with 26 U.S.C. 4271-4273 by sec. 4(a) of Public Law 85-475 (72 Stat. 260).

14 26 U.S.C. 7701(a*18).

15 42 U.S.C. 410 a 15).

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(b) 16 No taxes shall be collected under title VIII or IX of the Social Security Act or under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act or the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, with respect to services rendered prior to January 1, 1946, which are described in paragraph (16) of sections 1426(b) and 1607(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and any such tax heretofore collected (included penalty and interest with respect thereto, if any) shall be refunded in accordance with the provisions of law applicable in the case of erroneous or illegal collection of the tax. No interest shall be allowed or paid on the amount of any such refund. No payment shall be made under title II of the Social Security Act with respect to services rendered prior to January 1, 1946, which are described in paragraph (16) of section 209(b) of such Act, as amended.

SEC. 6.17 International organizations shall be exempt from all property taxes imposed by, or under the authority of, any Act of Congress, including such Acts as are applicable solely to the District of Columbia or the Territories.

SEC. 7.18 (a) Persons designated by foreign governments to serve as their representatives in or to international organizations and the officers and employees of such organizations, and members of the immediate families of such representatives, officers, and employees residing with them, other than nationals of the United States, shall, insofar as concerns laws regulating entry into and departure from the United States, alien registration and fingerprinting, and the registration of foreign agents, be entitled to the same privileges, exemptions, and immunities as are accorded under similar circumstances to officers and employees, respectively, of foreign governments, and members of their families.

(b) Representatives of foreign governments in or to international organizations and officers and employees of such organizations shall be immune from suit and legal process relating to acts performed by them in their official capacity and falling within their functions as such representatives, officers, or employees except insofar as such immunity may be waived by the foreign government or international organization concerned.

(c) 19 Section 3 of the Immigration Act approved March 26, 1924, as amended (U.S.C., title 8, sec. 203), is hereby amended by striking

16 26 U.S.C. 3101 Historical Note, 42 U.S.C. 401 Historical Note.

17 22 U.S.C. 288c.

18 22 U.S.C. 288d.

19 Sec. 3 of the Immigration Act of May 26, 1924 (8 U.S.C. 203), was repealed and replaced by sec. 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of June 27, 1952 (Public Law 82-414, 66 Stat. 167, 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)). Sec. 7(c) of the International Organizations Immunities Act, set forth in the text above, is now covered by sec. 101(aX15XG) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of June 27, 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(G)), which provided:

"(G)(i) a designated principal resident representative of a foreign government recognized de jure by the United States, which foreign government is a member of an international organization entitled to enjoy privileges, exemptions, and immunities as an international organization under the International Organizations Immunity Act (55 Stat. 669), accredited resident members of the staff of such representatives, and members of his or their immediate family;

"(ii) other accredited representatives of such a foreign government to such international organizations, and the members of their immediate families;

"(iii) an alien able to qualify under (i) or (ii) above except for the fact that the government of which such alien is an accredited representative is not recognized de jure by the United States, or that the government of which he is an accredited representative is not a member of such international organization, and the members of his immediate family;

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