2 FAM 1260
requests for economic information/data
(CT:GEN-479; 10-23-2017)
(Office of Origin: EB-ENR/EX)
2 FAM 1261 CLEARANCE PROCEDURES FOR
requests for economic information/data
(CT:GEN-479; 10-23-2017)
a. Economic/commercial data requests and related
communications prepared by any Federal agency or a component of the Department
of State must be submitted to an appropriate substantive office of the
Department for final clearance and coordination before being sent to overseas
and domestic posts (e.g., USUN). Such requests prepared by a component of the
Department of State for a multilateral development bank (World Bank, ADB, IADB,
AFDB, EBRD) must be submitted for clearance and coordination to EB/IFD/ODF as
the Departments appropriate substantive office. Drafting officers should
obtain any other clearances they consider necessary prior to submitting the
request for final clearance. All reporting requests levied on bilateral posts
abroad must also be cleared with the appropriate country director or, in cases
where several countries are involved, with the appropriate regional office of
the geographic bureaus concerned. Reporting requests levied on multilateral
missions (such as USOECD, UNVIE, etc.) should be cleared with the director of
the office having primary responsibility for such missions.
b. The appropriate substantive office is determined by
the subject matter of the economic/commercial reporting request, in accordance
with the following subject and appropriate office:
Agricultural Trade and Commodities:
Office of Agriculture Policy (EB/TPN/AGP)
Aviation Affairs: Office of Aviation
Negotiations (EB/TRA/AN) and Office of Transportation Policy (EB/TRA/OTP)
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management:
Office of Conservation and Water (OES/E/ECW)
Biosafety: Office of Agriculture Policy (EB/TPN/AGP)
Bribery: Office of Monetary Affairs
(EB/IFD/OMA)
Commercial Affairs: Office of Commercial
and Business Affairs (EB/CBA)
Communications Affairs: Office of
International Communications and Information Policy (EB/CIP)
Conflict Diamonds and Conflict Minerals: Office
of Threat Finance Countermeasures (EB/TFS/TFC)
Corporate Social Responsibility: Office
of Economic Policy Analysis and Public Diplomacy (EB/EPPD)
Development and Export Credit Issues and
Policies, Multilateral Development Bank Policies and Programs, International
Donors Conferences, Export-Import Bank, Millennium Challenge Corporation and
U.S. Trade Development Agency (TDA) Policies and Programs: Office of
Development Finance (EB/IFD/ODF)
Economic Public Diplomacy: Office of
Economic Policy Analysis and Public Diplomacy (EB/EPPD)
Environmental Affairs: Office of
Environmental Quality and Transboundary Issues (OES/E/EQT)
Export Finance: Office of Development
Finance (EB/IFD/ODF)
Fisheries Affairs: Office of Marine
Conservation (OES/O/OMC)
Food Policy and Programs: Office of Agriculture Policy (EB/TPN/AGP) and Office of Global Food Security
(S/GFS)
Foreign Investment: Office of Investment
Affairs (EB/IFD/OIA)
Fuels and Energy: Office of Policy
Analysis and Public Diplomacy (ENR/EGA/PAPD)
Genetic Resources: Office of
Conservation and Water (OES/E/ECW)
Health Affairs: Office of International
Health and Biodefense (OES/S/IHB) and Office of Global Health Diplomacy (S/GAC/GHD)
Intellectual Property: Office of
International Intellectual Property Enforcement (EB/CBA/IPE)
International Trade Policy and Negotiations:
Bilateral: Office of Bilateral
Trade Affairs (EB/TPN/BTA); and
Multilateral: Office of Multilateral
Trade Affairs (EB/TPN/MTA)
Labor and Employment (Economic Data and Reports
Request): Office of International Labor Affairs (DRL/ILA)
Maritime Affairs, including Container and Supply
Chain Security: Office of Transportation Policy (EB/TRA/OTP)
Monetary Affairs: Office of Monetary
Affairs (EB/IFD/OMA)
Ocean Affairs: Office of Ocean and Polar
Affairs (OES/OPA)
OECD Issues: Office of Economic Policy
Analysis and Public Diplomacy (EB/EPPD):
o Environment-related OECD Issues: Office of Environmental
Quality and Transboundary Issues (OES/E/EQT)
o Anti-Corruption related OECD Issues: Office of Monetary
Affairs (EB/IFD/OMA)
Sanctions: Office of Economic Sanctions
Policy and Implementation (EB/TFS/SPI)
Science and Technology: Office of Space
and Advanced Technology (OES/S/SAT) and Office of Science and Technology
Cooperation (OES/S/STC)
Strategic Planning and Public Diplomacy: Office
of Economic Policy Analysis and Public Diplomacy (EB/EPPD)
Terrorist Financing: Office of Threat
Finance Countermeasures (EB/TFS/TFC)
Timber and Wildlife Management, Trade and
Illicit Trafficking: Office of Conservation and Water (OES/E/ECW)
c. The term economic/commercial data reporting
request is defined as any communication requesting one or more Foreign Service
posts to obtain and submit information on economic, political-economic,
socio-economic, technological, or commercial topics. If any office or agency
is in doubt as to whether a proposed communication to a post constitutes a
request for economic/commercial reporting by the Foreign Service, or is
uncertain as to which office should clear the request, it should consult with
the Office of Commercial and Business Affairs, Bureau of Economic and Business
Affairs (EB/CBA).
d. Reporting or data requests should meet one of the
following criteria:
(1) Importance to U.S. Government interests or
objectives;
(2) Need as background for legislation, or to provide
information to the Congress; and
(3) Necessity to support U.S. business activities
deemed consistent with official objectives.
2 FAM 1262 CLEARANCES ON PUBLIC LAW 83-480
MESSAGES
(CT:GEN-479; 10-23-2017)
a. The Office of Food for Peace (FFP) in the United
States Agency for International Development (USAID)
must clear all messages relating to Public Law 83-480, the Agricultural Trade
Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended, and Titles I and II. The
FFP maintains liaison with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in accordance
with interagency agreements and delegated authority, and is responsible for
obtaining clearance from the Department of Agriculture. The Department of
Agriculture clears messages originating in its agency (except routine
operational matters) with the Department of State and USAID through the FFP.
b. In the Department, offices concerned include
appropriate desk officers, regional bureaus, the Office of Agriculture Policy in the Bureau of Economic,
and Business Affairs (EB/TPN/AGP), the
Office of Economic and Development Affairs in the Bureau of International
Organization Affairs (IO/EDA), the Office of U.S. Foreign Assistance Resources
(F), and other entities of the Department of State and USAID concerned with
Public Law 83-480 programs.
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