Blocking Sudanese Government Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Sudan

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

    (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.