[House Document 116-33]
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116th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - House Document 116-33
 
TAKING ADDITIONAL STEPS TO ADDRESS THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT 
                                TO IRAN

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                     THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

NOTIFICATION OF THE ISSUANCE OF AN EXECUTIVE ORDER WITH RESPECT TO IRAN 
  THAT TAKES ADDITIONAL STEPS WITH RESPECT TO THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY 
DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 12957 OF MARCH 15, 1995, AND TO SUPPLEMENT 
THE AUTHORITIES PROVIDED IN THE IRAN FREEDOM AND COUNTER-PROLIFERATION 
  ACT OF 2012, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1703(b); PUBLIC LAW 95-223 SEC. 
                        204(b); (91 STAT. 1627)

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May 8, 2019.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the Committee 
  on Foreign Affairs and Financial Services, and ordered to be printed

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                     U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 
		 
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To the Congress of the United States:
    Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act 
(50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have 
issued an Executive Order (the ``order'') with respect to Iran 
that takes additional steps with respect to the national 
emergency declared in Executive Order 12957 of March 15, 1995, 
and to supplement the authorities provided in the Iran Freedom 
and Counter-Proliferation Act of 2012 (subtitle D of title XII 
of Public Law 112-239).
    The order takes steps to deny Iran revenue, including 
revenue derived from the export of products from Iran's iron, 
steel, aluminum, and copper sectors, that may be used to 
provide funding and support for the proliferation of weapons of 
mass destruction, terrorist groups and networks, campaigns of 
regional aggression, and military expansion.
    The order blocks the property and interests in property of 
persons determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in 
consultation with the Secretary of State:
           to be operating in the iron, steel, 
        aluminum, or copper sector of Iran, or to be a person 
        that owns, controls, or operates an entity that is part 
        of the iron, steel, aluminum, or copper sector of Iran;
           to have knowingly engaged, on or after the 
        date of the order, in a significant transaction for the 
        sale, supply, or transfer to Iran of significant goods 
        or services used in connection with the iron, steel, 
        aluminum, or copper sectors of Iran;
           to have knowingly engaged, on or after the 
        date of the order, in a significant transaction for the 
        purchase, acquisition, sale, transport, or marketing of 
        iron, iron products, aluminum, aluminum products, 
        steel, steel products, copper, or copper products from 
        Iran;
           to have materially assisted, sponsored, or 
        provided financial, material, or technological support 
        for, or goods or services in support of, any person 
        whose property and interests in property are blocked 
        pursuant to the order; or
           to be owned or controlled 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 the order.
    The order also authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in 
consultation with the Secretary of State, to impose 
correspondent and payable-through account-related sanctions on 
a foreign financial institution upon determining the foreign 
financial institution has, on or after the date of the order, 
knowingly conducted or facilitated a significant financial 
transaction:
           for the sale, supply, or transfer to Iran of 
        significant goods or services used in connection with 
        the iron, steel, aluminum, or copper sectors of Iran;
           for the purchase, acquisition, sale, 
        transport, or marketing of iron, iron products, 
        aluminum, aluminum products, steel, steel products, 
        copper, or copper products from Iran; or
           for or on behalf of any persons whose 
        property and interests in property are blocked pursuant 
        to the order.
    I have delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury, in 
consultation with the Secretary of State, the authority to take 
such actions, including adopting rules and regulations, to 
employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be 
necessary to implement the order.
    I am enclosing a copy of the order I have issued.

                                                   Donald J. Trump.
    The White House, May 8, 2019.










                            EXECUTIVE ORDER

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   Imposing Sanctions With Respect to the Iron, Steel, Aluminum, and 
                         Copper Sectors of Iran

    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.), section 212(f) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of 
title 3, United States Code, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of 
the United States of America, find that:
    It remains the policy of the United States to deny Iran all 
paths to both a nuclear weapon and intercontinental ballistic 
missiles, and to counter the totality of Iran's malign 
influence in the Middle East. It is also the policy of the 
United States to deny the Iranian government revenue, including 
revenue derived from the export of products from Iran's iron, 
steel, aluminum, and copper sectors, that may be used to 
provide funding and support for the proliferation of weapons of 
mass destruction, terrorist groups and networks, campaigns of 
regional aggression, and military expansion.
    In light of these findings and in order to take further 
steps with respect to the national emergency declared in 
Executive Order 12957 of March 15, 1995, and to supplement the 
authorities provided in the Iran Freedom and Counter-
Proliferation Act of 2012 (subtitle D of title XII of Public 
Law 112-239), I hereby order:
    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: any person determined by the 
Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary 
of State:
          (i) to be operating in the iron, steel, aluminum, or 
        copper sector of Iran, or to be a person that owns, 
        controls, or operates an entity that is part of the 
        iron, steel, aluminum, or copper sector of Iran;
          (ii) to have knowingly engaged, on or after the date 
        of this order, in a significant transaction for the 
        sale, supply, or transfer to Iran of significant goods 
        or services used in connection with the iron, steel, 
        aluminum, or copper sectors of Iran;
          (iii) to have knowingly engaged, on or after the date 
        of this order, in a significant transaction for the 
        purchase, acquisition, sale, transport, or marketing of 
        iron, iron products, aluminum, aluminum products, 
        steel, steel products, copper, or copper products from 
        Iran;
          (iv) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or 
        provided financial, material, or technological support 
        for, or goods or services in support of any person 
        whose property and interests in property are blocked 
        pursuant to this section; or
          (v) to be owned or controlled 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 section.
    (b) The prohibitions in 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 before the date of this order.
    Sec. 2. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to impose on 
a foreign financial institution the sanctions described in 
subsection (b) of this section upon determining that the 
foreign financial institution has, on or after the date of this 
order, knowingly conducted or facilitated any significant 
financial transaction:
          (i) for the sale, supply, or transfer to Iran of 
        significant goods or services used in connection with 
        the iron, steel, aluminum, or copper sectors of Iran;
          (ii) for the purchase, acquisition, sale, transport, 
        or marketing of iron, iron products, aluminum, aluminum 
        products, steel, steel products, copper, or copper 
        products from Iran; or
          (iii) for or on behalf of any person whose property 
        and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this 
        order.
    (b) With respect to any foreign financial institution 
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with 
this section to meet any of the criteria set forth in 
subsection (a)(i) through (a)(iii) of this section, the 
Secretary of the Treasury may prohibit the opening, and 
prohibit or impose strict conditions on maintaining, in the 
United States of a correspondent account or payable-through 
account by such foreign financial institution.
    (c) The prohibitions in subsection (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 before the date 
of this order.
    Sec. 3. I hereby determine that the making of donations of 
the types of articles specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA 
(50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or for the benefit of any person 
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant 
to this order would seriously impair my ability to deal with 
the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12957, and I 
hereby prohibit such donations as provided by this section.
    Sec. 4. The prohibitions in section 1 of this order 
include:
    (a) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, 
goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person 
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant 
to subsection (a) of that section; and
    (b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, 
goods, or services from any such person.
    Sec. 5. The unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant entry 
into the United States of aliens determined to meet one or more 
of the criteria in subsection 1(a) of this order would be 
detrimental to the interests of the United States, and the 
entry of such persons into the United States, as immigrants or 
nonimmigrants, is therefore hereby suspended. Such persons 
shall be treated as persons covered by section 1 of 
Proclamation 8693 of July 24, 2011 (Suspension of Entry of 
Aliens Subject to United Nations Security Council Travel Bans 
and International Emergency Economic Powers Act Sanctions).
    Sec. 6. (a) Any transaction that evades or avoids, has the 
purpose of evading or avoiding, causes a violation of, or 
attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this 
order is prohibited.
    (b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the 
prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
    Sec. 7. Nothing in this order shall apply to transactions 
for the conduct of the official business of the Federal 
Government or the United Nations (including its specialized 
agencies, programmes, funds, and related organizations) by 
employees, grantees, or contractors thereof.
    Sec. 8. For the purposes of this order:
    (a) the term ``entity'' means a partnership, association, 
trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other 
organization;
    (b) the term ``foreign financial institution'' means any 
foreign entity that is engaged in the business of accepting 
deposits, making, granting, transferring, holding, or brokering 
loans or credits, or purchasing or selling foreign exchange, 
securities, commodity futures or options, or procuring 
purchasers and sellers thereof, as principal or agent. It 
includes, but is not limited to, depository institutions, 
banks, savings banks, money service businesses, trust 
companies, securities brokers and dealers, commodity futures 
and options brokers and dealers, forward contract and foreign 
exchange merchants, securities and commodities exchanges, 
clearing corporations, investment companies, employee benefit 
plans, dealers in precious metals, stones, or jewels, and 
holding companies, affiliates, or subsidiaries of any of the 
foregoing. The term does not include the international 
financial institutions identified in 22 U.S.C. 262r(c)(2), the 
International Fund for Agricultural Development, the North 
American Development Bank, or any other international financial 
institution so notified by the Secretary of the Treasury;
    (c) the term ``Government of Iran'' includes the Government 
of Iran, any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality 
thereof, including the Central Bank of Iran, and any person 
owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, the 
Government of Iran;
    (d) the term ``Iran'' means the Government of Iran and the 
territory of Iran and any other territory or marine area, 
including the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, 
over which the Government of Iran claims sovereignty, sovereign 
rights, or jurisdiction, provided that the Government of Iran 
exercises partial or total de facto control over the area or 
derives a benefit from economic activity in the area pursuant 
to international arrangements;
    (e) the term ``knowingly,'' with respect to conduct, a 
circumstance, or a result, means that a person has actual 
knowledge, or should have known, of the conduct, the 
circumstance, or the result;
    (f) the term ``person'' means an individual or entity; and
    (g) the term ``United States person'' means any United 
States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized 
under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within 
the United States (including foreign branches), or any person 
in the United States.
    Sec. 9. For those persons whose property and interests in 
property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a 
constitutional presence in the United States, I find that 
because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets 
instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be 
taken pursuant to this order would render those measures 
ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to 
be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in 
Executive Order 12957, there need be no prior notice of a 
listing or determination made pursuant to section 1 of this 
order.
    Sec. 10. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to take such 
actions, including adopting rules and regulations, and to 
employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be 
necessary to implement this order. The Secretary of the 
Treasury may, consistent with applicable law, redelegate any of 
these functions within the Department of the Treasury. All 
agencies shall take all appropriate measures within their 
authority to implement this order.
    Sec. 11. (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 the 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. 12. The measures taken pursuant to this order are in 
response to actions of the Government of Iran occurring after 
the conclusion of the 1981 Algiers Accords, and are intended 
solely as a response to those later actions.

                                                   Donald J. Trump.
    The White House, May 8, 2019.

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