[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 31, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 31CFR800.220]



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                  TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE: TREASURY

 

  CHAPTER VIII--OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE 

                                TREASURY

 

PART 800_REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS, AND TAKEOVERS 

BY FOREIGN PERSONS--Table of Contents

 

                          Subpart B_Definitions

 

Sec. 800.220  United States.



    The term United States means the United States of America, the 

States of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any 

commonwealth, territory, dependency, or possession of the United States, 

and includes the Outer Continental Shelf, as defined in section 2(a) of 

the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1131 (a)). For purposes 

of these regulations and their examples, an entity organized under the 

laws of the United States of America, one of the States, the District of 

Columbia, or a commonwealth, territory, dependency or possession of the 

United States, is an entity organized ``in the United States.''



[56 FR 58780, Nov. 21, 1991. Redesignated at 59 FR 27179, May 25, 1994]