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requiring any United States domestic financial institutions that exist within a geographic area to report on transactions any greater than a specified value. GTOs are defined in the

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in . They only last for a limited period of time — originally each order lasted 60 days however section 353 of the

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extended such orders to 180 days.

External links

Title 31, Subtitle IV, Chapter 53, § 5326 - Records of certain domestic coin and currency transactions
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