IMF Agreement Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund (Bretton Woods)
Section 1: Use of the Fund’s general resources for capital transfers
(a) A member may not use the Fund’s general resources to meet a large or sustained outflow of capital except as provided in Section 2 of this Article, and the Fund may request a member to exercise controls to prevent such use of the general resources of the Fund. If, after receiv ing such a request, a member fails to exercise appropriate controls, the Fund may declare the member ineligible to use the general resources of the Fund.
(b) Nothing in this Section shall be deemed:
(i) to prevent the use of the general resources of the Fund for capital transactions of reasonable amount required for the expansion of exports or in the ordinary course of trade, banking, or other business; or
(ii) to affect capital movements which are met out of a member’s own resources, but members undertake that such capital movements will be in accordance with the purp oses of the Fund.
Section 2: Special provisions for capital transfers
A member shall be entitled to make reserve tranche purchases to meet capital transfers.
Section 3: Controls of capital transfers
Members may exercise such controls as are necessary to regulate international capital movements, but no member may exercise these controls in a manner which will restrict payments for current transactions or which will unduly delay transfers of funds in settlement of commitments, except as provided in Article VII, Section 3(b) and in Article XIV, Section 2.
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