The United States has made significant progress meeting individual requirements of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) since the fall of 2011 when the U.S. announced that it would begin the multi-year process of becoming an EITI compliant country. The Department of the Interior established a multi-stakeholder group in December 2012 and achieved Candidate Country status in March 2014. Perhaps our most significant accomplishment is the creation of an open source, open code interactive web-based data portal (https://useiti.doi.gov) on which the agency has unilaterally disclosed 2013, 2014, and 2015 revenues by company, commodity, and revenue type, as well as production data across all commodities. This portal is the new global standard in revenue governance transparency...While the U.S. government remains commited to fighting corruption in the extractive industries sector, and the ideals of transparency enshrined in the EITI Principles and the EITI Standard, it is clear that domestic implementation of EITI does not fully account for the U.S. legal framework. Effective immediately, therefore, the United States must withdraw as an EITI Implementing Country...