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icy or national security reasons for those defense articles 
being provided by commercial lease rather than by govern-
ment-to-government sale under such Act. 
AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS 
SEC. 5011. No part of any appropriation contained 
in this Act shall remain available for obligation after the 
expiration of the current fiscal year unless expressly so pro-
vided in this Act: Provided, That funds appropriated for 
the purposes of chapters 1, 8, 11, and 12 of part I, section 
667, chapters 4, 6, 8, and 9 of part II of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961, section 23 of the Arms Export Control 
Act, and funds provided under the heading ‘‘Assistance for 
Eastern Europe and the Baltic States’’, shall remain avail-
able for an additional four years from the date on which 
the availability of such funds would otherwise have expired, 
if such funds are initially obligated before the expiration 
of their respective periods of availability contained in this 
Act: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of this Act, any funds made available for the pur-
poses of chapter 1 of part I and chapter 4 of part II of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 which are allocated or 
obligated for cash disbursements in order to address balance 
of payments or economic policy reform objectives, shall re-
main available until expended.
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LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES IN DEFAULT 
SEC. 5012. No part of any appropriation contained 
in this Act shall be used to furnish assistance to the govern-
ment of any country which is in default during a period 
in excess of one calendar year in payment to the United 
States of principal or interest on any loan made to the gov-
ernment of such country by the United States pursuant to 
a program for which funds are appropriated under this Act 
unless the President determines, following consultations 
with the Committees on Appropriations, that assistance to 
such country is in the national interest of the United States. 
COMMERCE AND TRADE 
SEC. 5013. (a) None of the funds appropriated or made 
available pursuant to this Act for direct assistance and 
none of the funds otherwise made available pursuant to this 
Act to the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private 
Investment Corporation shall be obligated or expended to 
finance any loan, any assistance or any other financial 
commitments for establishing or expanding production of 
any commodity for export by any country other than the 
United States, if the commodity is likely to be in surplus 
on world markets at the time the resulting productive ca-
pacity is expected to become operative and if the assistance 
will cause substantial injury to United States producers of 
the same, similar, or competing commodity: Provided, That 
such prohibition shall not apply to the Export-Import Bank
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if in the judgment of its Board of Directors the benefits to 
industry and employment in the United States are likely 
to outweigh the injury to United States producers of the 
same, similar, or competing commodity, and the Chairman 
of the Board so notifies the Committees on Appropriations. 
(b) None of the funds appropriated by this or any other 
Act to carry out chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 shall be available for any testing or breed-
ing feasibility study, variety improvement or introduction, 
consultancy, publication, conference, or training in connec-
tion with the growth or production in a foreign country 
of an agricultural commodity for export which would com-
pete with a similar commodity grown or produced in the 
United States: Provided, That this subsection shall not pro-
hibit—
(1) activities designed to increase food security 
in developing countries where such activities will not 
have a significant impact on the export of agricul-
tural commodities of the United States; or 
(2) research activities intended primarily to ben-
efit American producers. 
SURPLUS COMMODITIES 
SEC. 5014. The Secretary of the Treasury shall in-
struct the United States Executive Directors of the Inter-
national Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the 
International Development Association, the International
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Finance Corporation, the Inter-American Development 
Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Devel-
opment Bank, the Inter-American Investment Corporation, 
the North American Development Bank, the European 
Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the African De-
velopment Bank, and the African Development Fund to use 
the voice and vote of the United States to oppose any assist-
ance by these institutions, using funds appropriated or 
made available pursuant to this Act, for the production or 
extraction of any commodity or mineral for export, if it 
is in surplus on world markets and if the assistance will 
cause substantial injury to United States producers of the 
same, similar, or competing commodity. 
NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 5015. For the purposes of providing the executive 
branch with the necessary administrative flexibility, none 
of the funds made available under this Act for ‘‘Child Sur-
vival and Health Programs Fund’’, ‘‘Development Assist-
ance’’, ‘‘International Organizations and Programs’’, 
‘‘Trade and Development Agency’’, ‘‘International Nar-
cotics 
Control 
and 
Law 
Enforcement’’, 
‘‘Andean 
Counterdrug Initiative’’, ‘‘Assistance for Eastern Europe 
and the Baltic States’’, ‘‘Assistance for the Independent 
States of the Former Soviet Union’’, ‘‘Economic Support 
Fund’’, ‘‘Global HIV/AIDS Initiative’’, ‘‘Peacekeeping Op-
erations’’, ‘‘Capital Investment Fund’’, ‘‘Operating Ex-