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Presidential Determination Allowing Financial Assistance to Tibet
President Carter's 1980 Determination that financial assistance to the People's Republic of China would be in the national interest satisfies the requirements of section 2(b)(2) of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 and thus permits the Export-Import Bank to provide assistance to the region of Tibet, its provincial government, and its residents without any presidential action in addition to the prior determination made with respect to China. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/19591/download.
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