[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 214 (Wednesday, November 5, 1997)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 59989-59990]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-29464]
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Part IV
The President
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Executive Order 13067--Blocking Sudanese Government Property and
Prohibiting Transactions With Sudan
                        Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 214 / Wednesday, November 5, 1997 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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                Executive Order 13067 of November 3, 1997
Blocking Sudanese Government Property and
                Prohibiting Transactions With Sudan
                By the authority vested in me as President by the
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of
                America, including the International Emergency Economic
                Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the
                National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and
                section 301 of title 3, United States Code;
                I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the United States
                of America, find that the policies and actions of the
                Government of Sudan, including continued support for
                international terrorism; ongoing efforts to destabilize
                neighboring governments; and the prevalence of human
                rights violations, including slavery and the denial of
                religious freedom, constitute an unusual and
                extraordinary threat to the national security and
                foreign policy of the United States, and hereby declare
                a national emergency to deal with that threat. I hereby
                order:
                Section 1. Except to the extent provided in section
                203(b) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)) and in regulations,
                orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued
                pursuant to this order, all property and interests in
                property of the Government of Sudan that are in the
                United States, that hereafter come within the United
                States, or that hereafter come within the possession or
                control of United States persons, including their
                overseas branches, are blocked.
                Sec. 2. The following are prohibited, except to the
                extent provided in section 203(b) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C.
                1702(b)) and in regulations, orders, directives, or
                licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order:
                    (a) the importation into the United States of any
                goods or services of Sudanese origin, other than
                information or informational materials;
                    (b) the exportation or reexportation, directly or
                indirectly, to Sudan of any goods, technology
                (including technical data, software, or other
                information), or services from the United States or by
                a United States person, wherever located, or requiring
                the issuance of a license by a Federal agency, except
                for donations of articles intended to relieve human
                suffering, such as food, clothing, and medicine;
                    (c) the facilitation by a United States person,
                including but not limited to brokering activities, of
                the exportation or reexportation of goods, technology,
                or services from Sudan to any destination, or to Sudan
                from any location;
                    (d) the performance by any United States person of
                any contract, including a financing contract, in
                support of an industrial, commercial, public utility,
                or governmental project in Sudan;
                    (e) the grant or extension of credits or loans by
                any United States person to the Government of Sudan;
                    (f) any transaction by a United States person
                relating to transportation of cargo to or from Sudan;
                the provision of transportation of cargo to or from the
                United States by any Sudanese person or any vessel or
                aircraft of Sudanese registration; or the sale in the
                United States by any person holding authority under
                subtitle 7 of title 49, United States Code, of any
                transportation of cargo by air that includes any stop
                in Sudan; and
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                    (g) any transaction by any United States person or
                within the United States that evades or avoids, or has
                the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to
                violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in this
                order.
                Sec. 3. Nothing in this order shall prohibit:
                    (a) transactions for the conduct of the official
                business of the Federal Government or the United
                Nations by employees thereof; or
                    (b) transactions in Sudan for journalistic activity
                by persons regularly employed in such capacity by a
                news-gathering organization.
                Sec. 4. For the purposes of this order:
                    (a) the term ``person'' means an individual or
                entity;
                    (b) the term ``entity'' means a partnership,
                association, trust, joint venture, corporation, or
                other organization;
                    (c) the term ``United States person'' means any
                United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity
                organized under the laws of the United States
                (including foreign branches), or any person in the
                United States; and
                    (d) the term ``Government of Sudan'' includes the
                Government of Sudan, its agencies, instrumentalities
                and controlled entities, and the Central Bank of Sudan.
                Sec. 5. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation
                with the Secretary of State and, as appropriate, other
                agencies, is hereby authorized to take such actions,
                including the promulgation of rules and regulations,
                and to employ all powers granted to me by IEEPA, as may
                be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order.
                The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of
                these functions to other officers and agencies of the
                United States Government. All agencies of the United
                States Government are hereby directed to take all
                appropriate measures within their authority to carry
                out the provisions of this order.
                Sec. 6. Nothing contained in this order shall create
                any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
                enforceable by any party against the United States, its
                agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or
                employees, or any other person.
                Sec. 7. (a) This order shall take effect at 12:01 a.m.
                eastern standard time on November 4, 1997, except that
                trade transactions under contracts in force as of the
                effective date of this order may be performed pursuant
                to their terms through 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time
                on December 4, 1997, and letters of credit and other
                financing agreements for such underlying trade
                transactions may be performed pursuant to their terms.
                    (b) This order shall be transmitted to the Congress
                and published in the Federal Register.
                    (Presidential Sig.)
                THE WHITE HOUSE,
                    November 3, 1997.
[FR Doc. 97-29464
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