Office of Investment Security

Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)

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Guidance

The U.S. Department of the Treasury, as CFIUS chair, published Guidance Concerning the National Security Review Conducted by CFIUS in the Federal Register on December 8, 2008. 

The guidance describes:  the purpose and nature of the CFIUS process, how CFIUS analyzes whether a transaction poses national security risks, national security factors identified by FINSA, and the types of transactions that CFIUS has reviewed that have presented national security considerations.

• Guidance Concerning the National Security Review Conducted by CFIUS , 73 Fed. Reg. 74567 (Dec. 8, 2008)
  
  
• Summary of Guidance

Last Updated: April 27, 2009