A bill to define the circumstances in which foreign states are immune from the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts and in which execution may not be levied on their assets.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Provides that a foreign state shall be immune from the jurisdiction of the Courts of the United States and of the states except in any case: (1) in which the foreign state has waived its immunity either explicitly or by implication, notwithstanding any withdrawal of the waiver which the foreign state may purport to effect after the claim arose; (2) in which the action is based upon a commercial activity carried on in the United States by the foreign state, or upon an act performed in the United States in connection with a commercial activity of the foreign state elsewhere, or upon an act outside the territory of the United States in connection with a commercial activity of the foreign state elsewhere and that act has a direct effect within the territory of the United States; (3) in which rights in property taken in violation of international law are in issue and that property or any property exchanged for such property is present in the United States in connection with a commercial activity carried on in the United States by the foreign state or that property or any property exchanged for such property is owned or operated by an agency or instrumentality of the foreign state and ag…