[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 45 (Monday, November 10, 1997)]
[Pages 1727-1728]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
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Executive Order 13067--Blocking Sudanese Government Property and
Prohibiting Transactions With Sudan
November 3, 1997
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
(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
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(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.
William J. Clinton
The White House,
November 3, 1997.
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:22 a.m., November 4,
1997]
Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press
Secretary on November 4, and it was published in the Federal Register on
November 5.