Overseas officers gave Biden 22 items value greater than $100, together with 4 pen-related items, the report says. The items ranged in worth from $433 to $12,000 — each of these have been pens.

The items belong to the US authorities, so most are transferred to the Nationwide Archives and Data Administration for secure maintaining, although Biden has the choice of shopping for them again from the taxpayers. In 2021, Secretary of State Antony Blinken repaid the federal government $1,457 to buy items he acquired from Pope Francis.

Usually, the gadgets reveal the personalities of each the giver and the recipient. Throughout Donald Trump’s administration, overseas leaders wooed him with items together with a Louis Vuitton golf bag from French President Emmanuel Macron and a gold-framed portrait of Trump himself from then-Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Listed here are a number of the most costly and distinctive items Biden acquired in 2021:

• A $12,000 writing set from Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Geneva in June 2021. (Biden gave Putin a pair of customized aviator sun shades and a determine of an American bison.)
• Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani gave Biden a silk carpet value $9,600 in June 2021 — two months earlier than the US accomplished it’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, which fell to the Taliban.
• Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc gave a sand portray paintings of Biden himself, value $2,700.
• Queen Elizabeth II gave Biden {a photograph} of herself in a silver body, value $2,200.
• Probably the most considerate present: A pen drawing of Biden’s childhood dwelling from then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel, value $780 alongside a tea set.
• King Abdullah of Jordan gave each Biden and the primary woman mother-of-pearl jewellery bins value $2,400 every.
• Probably the most high-tech present: A Tissot Contact Join photo voltaic wristwatch value $1,050 from former Swiss President Man Parmelin.
• Probably the most items got here from former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who gave Biden two canine bowls, two wool blankets, a ceramic cup and mug set, a fountain pen with a bottle of Oxford blue ink, {a photograph} of a Frederick Douglass mural in Edinburgh and a G-7 summit-branded face masks. Whole worth: $536.20.
• Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison gave Biden leather-based boots from R.M. Williams of Australia valued at $500.
• The most affordable present: A $433 Dupont fountain pen from French president Emmanuel Macron. Nevertheless it’s the thought that counts.