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tion), if the President determines that there are compel-
ling foreign policy or national security reasons for those 
defense articles being provided by commercial lease rather 
than by government-to-government sale under such Act. 
AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS 
SEC. 511. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation after the ex-
piration 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 
Assistance Act of 1961, section 23 of the Arms Export 
Control Act, and funds provided under the heading ‘‘As-
sistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States’’, shall 
remain available 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, notwith-
standing any other provision of this Act, any funds made 
available for the purposes of chapter 1 of part I and chap-
ter 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 remain available until expended.
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LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES IN DEFAULT 
SEC. 512. 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 
government of such country by the United States pursuant 
to a program for which funds are appropriated under this 
Act unless the President determines, following consulta-
tions with the Committees on Appropriations, that assist-
ance to such country is in the national interest of the 
United States. 
COMMERCE AND TRADE 
SEC. 513. (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 ex-
pended to finance any loan, any assistance or any other 
financial commitments for establishing or expanding pro-
duction 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 pro-
ductive capacity is expected to become operative and if the 
assistance will cause substantial injury to United States 
producers of the same, similar, or competing commodity:
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Provided, That such prohibition shall not apply to the Ex-
port-Import Bank if in the judgment of its Board of Direc-
tors 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 com-
modity, 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 
Assistance Act of 1961 shall be available for any testing 
or breeding feasibility study, variety improvement or intro-
duction, consultancy, publication, conference, or training 
in connection with the growth or production in a foreign 
country of an agricultural commodity for export which 
would compete with a similar commodity grown or pro-
duced in the United States: Provided, That this subsection 
shall not prohibit—
(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 
benefit American producers. 
SURPLUS COMMODITIES 
SEC. 514. The Secretary of the Treasury shall in-
struct the United States Executive Directors of the Inter-
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national Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the 
International Development Association, the International 
Finance Corporation, the Inter-American Development 
Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Devel-
opment Bank, the Inter-American Investment Corpora-
tion, the North American Development Bank, the Euro-
pean Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Afri-
can Development Bank, and the African Development 
Fund to use the voice and vote of the United States to 
oppose any assistance 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. 515. 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