Modernizing Sanctions To Combat Terrorism

Executive Order 13886 of September 9, 2019

Modernizing Sanctions To Combat Terrorism

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.), the
United Nations Participation Act of 1945 (22 U.S.C.
287c) (UNPA), and section 301 of title 3, United States
Code; and in view of multiple United Nations Security
Council resolutions, including Resolution 1373 of
September 28, 2001, Resolution 1526 of January 30,
2004, Resolution 1988 of June 17, 2011, Resolution 1989
of June 17, 2011, Resolution 2253 of December 17, 2015,
Resolution 2255 of December 21, 2015, Resolution 2368
of July 20, 2017, and Resolution 2462 of March 28,
2019,

I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of
America, find that it is necessary to consolidate and
enhance sanctions to combat acts of terrorism and
threats of terrorism by foreign terrorists, acts that
are recognized and condemned in the above-referenced
United Nations Security Council resolutions.
Accordingly, I hereby terminate the national emergency
declared in Executive Order 12947 of January 23, 1995,
and revoke Executive Order 12947, as amended by
Executive Order 13099 of August 20, 1998. In order to
build upon the initial steps taken in Executive Order
12947, to further strengthen and consolidate sanctions
to combat the continuing threat posed by international
terrorism, and in order to take additional steps to
deal with the national emergency declared in Executive
Order 13224 of September 23, 2001, with respect to the
continuing and immediate threat of grave acts of
terrorism and threats of terrorism committed by foreign
terrorists, which include acts of terrorism that
threaten the Middle East peace process, it is hereby
ordered as follows:

Section 1. Section 1 of Executive Order 13224 is hereby
amended to read as follows:

“Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property
that are in the United States, that hereafter come
within the United States, or that are or hereafter come
within the possession or control of any United States
person of the following persons are blocked and may not
be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise
dealt in:

(i) persons listed in the Annex to this order;

(ii) foreign persons determined by the Secretary of State, in consultation
with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, and the Secretary
of Homeland Security:

(A) to have committed or have attempted to commit, to pose a significant
risk of committing, or to have participated in training to commit acts of
terrorism that threaten the security of United States nationals or the
national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States; or

(B) to be a leader of an entity:

(1) listed in the Annex to this order; or

(2) whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to a
determination by the Secretary of State pursuant to this order;

(iii) persons determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation
with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the
Attorney General:

(A) to be owned, controlled, or directed by, or to have acted or
purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this
order;

(B) to own or control, directly or indirectly, any person whose property
and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order;

(C) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial,
material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in
support of, an act of terrorism as defined in section 3(d) of this order,
or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant
to this order;

(D) to have participated in training related to terrorism provided by any
person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to
this order;

(E) to be a leader or official of an entity whose property and interests
in property are blocked pursuant to:

(1) a determination by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to this
order; or

(2) subsection (a)(iv) of this section; or

(F) to have attempted or conspired to engage in any of the activities
described in subsections (a)(iii)(A) through (E) of this section;

(iv) persons whose property and interests in property were blocked pursuant
to Executive Order 12947, as amended, on or after January 23, 1995, and
remained blocked immediately prior to the effective date of this order.

    (b) The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby
authorized to prohibit the opening, and prohibit or
impose strict conditions on the maintaining, in the
United States, of a correspondent account or payable-
through account of any foreign financial institution
that the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation
with the Secretary of State, has determined, on or
after the effective date of this order, has knowingly
conducted or facilitated any significant transaction on
behalf of any person whose property and interests in
property are blocked pursuant to this order.
    (c) The prohibitions in subsections (a) and (b) of
this section apply except to the extent provided by
statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or
licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and
notwithstanding any contract entered into or any
license or permit granted prior to the effective date
of this order.”

Sec. 2. Section 5 of Executive Order 13224 is amended
by replacing the reference to subsection 1(d) with a
reference to subsection 1(a)(iii).

Sec. 3. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to
impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.

Sec. 4. This order is effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern
daylight time on September 10, 2019.

    (Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

    September 9, 2019.