[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 31, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 31CFR800.220]

[Page 701]
 
                  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 
 
                          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]