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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 13, 2010
                                                                    File Nos. 33-97598 and 811-09102
 
 
 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM N-1A
 
                 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
  
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                    Post-Effective Amendment No. 111
  
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                   and/or
  
   
   
                   REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
  
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                Amendment No. 113
  
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(Check appropriate box or boxes)
 
iShares, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
 
c/o State Street Bank & Trust Company
200 Clarendon Street
Boston, MA 02116
(Address of Principal Executive Office)(Zip Code)
 
Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code: (415) 597-2000
 
The Corporation Trust Company
300 E. Lombard Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
 (Name and Address of Agent for Service)
 
With Copies to:
 
       
MARGERY K. NEALE, ESQ.
WILLKIE FARR & GALLAGHER LLP
787 SEVENTH AVENUE
NEW YORK, N.Y. 10019-6099
 
BENJAMIN J. HASKIN, ESQ.
WILLKIE FARR & GALLAGHER LLP
1875 K STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006-1238
JESSICA N. BENTLEY, ESQ.
 
BLACKROCK INSTITUTIONAL TRUST
COMPANY, N.A.
 
400 HOWARD STREET
 
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105
 
It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box):
 
     
¨   Immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
  
x     On May 13, 2010 pursuant to paragraph (b)
   
¨     60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
  
¨        On (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
   
¨        75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
  
¨        On (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
 
If appropriate, check the following box:
 
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The post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment
 


 
 
 

Explanatory Note


This Post-Effective Amendment No. 111 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A is being filed pursuant to paragraph (b)(1)(iii) of Rule 485 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), solely for the purpose of delaying, until May 13, 2010, the effectiveness of the registration statement for the iShares MSCI USA Index Fund (the “Fund”), filed in Post-Effective Amendment No. 107 on January 29, 2010, pursuant to paragraph (a) of Rule 485 of the 1933 Act.
 
 

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 111 incorporates by reference the information contained in Parts A, B and C of Post-Effective Amendment No. 107.


 
 
 


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it meets all the requirements for the effectiveness of this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 485(b)(1)(iii) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 111 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of San Francisco and the State of California on the 13th day of  April 2010.
 

     
   
              
        By:     
   
Michael A. Latham*
   
President
   
   
Date: April 13, 2010
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 111 to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacity and on the dates indicated:
 
   
           
           By:     
   
Lee T. Kranefuss*
   
Director
   
   
Date: April 13, 2010
   
       
   
John E. Martinez*
   
Director
   
   
Date: April 13, 2010
   
       
   
George G. C. Parker*
   
Director
   
   
Date: April 13, 2010
   
       
   
Cecilia H. Herbert*
   
Director
   
   
Date: April 13, 2010
     
       
   
Charles A. Hurty*
   
Director
   
   
Date: April 13, 2010
   
       
   
John E. Kerrigan*
   
Director
   
   
Date: April 13, 2010
   

 
 
 


       
       
 
                     Robert H. Silver*
 
                     Director
   
 
                     Date: April 13, 2010
       
       
 
                     J. Darrell Duffie*
 
                     Director
     
 
                     Date: April 13, 2010
     
     
   
Robert S. Kapito**
   
Director
     
   
Date:  April 13, 2010
     
     
   
Michael Latham*
   
President
     
   
Date: April 13, 2010
       
   
/s/Jack Gee
 
   
Jack Gee
   
Treasurer
     
   
Date: April 13, 2010
   
   
  *, **By:
/s/ Jack Gee
 
   
Jack Gee
   
Attorney in fact
     
   
Date: April 13, 2010
 
 
*
Powers of Attorney, each dated February 23, 2009, for Michael A. Latham, Lee T. Kranefuss, John E. Martinez, George G.C. Parker, Cecilia H. Herbert, Charles A. Hurty, John E. Kerrigan, Robert H. Silver and J. Darrell Duffie are incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 100, filed September 28, 2009.
 
**
Power of Attorney, dated December 8, 2009, for Robert S. Kapito is incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 105, filed December 23, 2009.