[House Document 119-68]
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119th Congress, 1st Session--------------------HOUSE DOCUMENT 119-68
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PROVIDING FOR THE REVOCATION OF SYRIA SANCTIONS
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COMMUNICATION
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THEPRESIDENTOFTHEUNITEDSTATES
transmitting
PROVIDING FOR THE REVOCATION OF SYRIA SANCTIONS, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C.
1703(b); PUBLIC LAW 95-223, Sec. 204(b); (91 Stat. 1627)
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July 10, 2025.--Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and
ordered to be printed
The White House,
Washington, July 7, 2025.
Hon. Mike Johnson,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
Dear Mr. Speaker: Consistent with applicable law, including
the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701
et seq.), and the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et
seq.), I hereby report that I issued Executive Order 14312 of
June 30, 2025 (Providing for the Revocation of Syria Sanctions)
that, effective July 1, 2025, terminates the national emergency
declared in Executive Order 13338 of May 11, 2004 (Blocking
Property of Certain Persons and Prohibiting the Export of
Certain Goods to Syria), as modified in scope and relied upon
for additional steps taken in Executive Order 13399 of April
25, 2006 (Blocking Property of Additional Persons in Connection
With the National Emergency With Respect to Syria), Executive
Order 13460 of February 13, 2008 (Blocking Property of
Additional Persons in Connection With the National Emergency
With Respect to Syria), Executive Order 13572 of April 29, 2011
(Blocking Property of Certain Persons with Respect to Human
Rights Abuses in Syria), Executive Order 13573 of May 18, 2011
(Blocking Property of Senior Officials of the Government of
Syria), and Executive Order 13582 of August 17, 2011 (Blocking
Property of the Government of Syria and Prohibiting Certain
Transactions with Respect to Syria), and revokes those orders.
In addition, I find that additional steps must be taken to
ensure meaningful accountability for perpetrators of war crimes
and human rights violations and abuses, and the proliferation
of narcotics trafficking networks in and in relation to Syria
during the former regime of Bashar al-Assad and by those
associated with it. To address the threats described in
Executive Order 13894 of October 14, 2019 (Blocking Property
and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the
Situation in Syria), I expanded the scope of the national
emergency declared in that Executive Order, as amended in and
relied on for additional steps taken in Executive Order 14142
of January 15, 2025 (Taking Additional Steps With Respect to
the Situation in Syria), and I amended Executive Order 13894
and Executive Order 13606 of April 22, 2012 (Blocking the
Property and Suspending Entry into the United States of Certain
Persons With Respect to Grave Human Rights Abuses by the
Governments of Iran and Syria Via Information Technology)
accordingly.
I am enclosing a copy of Executive Order 14312.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Trump.
Executive Order
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Providing for the Revocation of Syria Sanctions
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.), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C.
1601 et seq.) (NEA), the Syria Accountability and Lebanese
Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-175) (Syria
Accountability Act), the Chemical and Biological Weapons
Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-
182, title III) (CBW Act), the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection
Act of 2019, as amended (22 U.S.C. 8791 note) (Caesar Act), the
Illicit Captagon Trafficking Suppression Act of 2023 (Public
Law 118-50, div. P), and section 301 of title 3, United States
Code, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Background. The United States is committed to
supporting a Syria that is stable, unified, and at peace with
itself and its neighbors. A united Syria that does not offer a
safe haven for terrorist organizations and ensures the security
of its religious and ethnic minorities will support regional
security and prosperity. The Secretary of State and the
Secretary of the Treasury have taken initial steps towards this
goal through the issuance on May 23, 2025, of General License
25 and a waiver of sanctions under the Caesar Act.
Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to
recognize that circumstances that gave rise to the actions
taken in the Executive Orders described in section 3(a) of this
order, related to the policies and actions of the former regime
of Bashar al-Assad, have been transformed by developments over
the past 6 months, including the positive actions taken by the
new Syrian government under President Ahmed al-Sharaa. This
order supports United States national security and foreign
policy goals by directing additional actions, including the
removal of sanctions on Syria, the issuance of waivers that
permit the relaxation of export controls and other restrictions
on Syria, and other actions to be taken by the Secretary of
State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of
Commerce, as well as by other executive departments and
agencies (agencies) of the United States, without providing
relief to ISIS or other terrorist organizations, human rights
abusers, those linked to chemical weapons or proliferation-
related activities, or other persons that threaten the peace,
security, or stability of the United States, Syria, and its
neighbors.
Sec. 3. Revocation of Syria Sanctions. (a) Effective July
1, 2025, I hereby terminate the national emergency declared in
Executive Order 13338 of May 11, 2004 (Blocking Property of
Certain Persons and Prohibiting the Export of Certain Goods to
Syria), and revoke that order, as well as Executive Order 13399
of April 25, 2006 (Blocking Properly of Additional Persons in
Connection With the National Emergency With Respect to Syria),
Executive Order 13460 of February 13, 2008 (Blocking Property
of Additional Persons in Connection With the National Emergency
With Respect to Syria), Executive Order 13572 of April 29, 2011
(Blocking Property of Certain Persons with Respect to Human
Rights Abuses in Syria), Executive Order 13573 of May 18, 2011
(Blocking Property of Senior Officials of the Government of
Syria), and Executive Order 13582 of August 17, 2011 (Blocking
Property of the Government of Syria and Prohibiting Certain
Transactions with Respect to Syria).
(b) Pursuant to section 202(a) of the NEA (50 U.S.C.
1622(a)), termination of the national emergency declared in
Executive Order 13338, as modified in scope and relied upon for
additional steps taken in Executive Order 13399, ExecutIve
Order 13460, Executive Order 13572, Executive Order 13573, and
Executive Order 13582 shall not affect any action taken or
pending proceeding not finally concluded or determined as of
July 1, 2025, any action or proceeding based on any act
committed prior to July 1, 2025, or any rights or duties that
matured or penalties that were incurred prior to July 1, 2025.
Sec 4. Accountability for the Former Regime of Bashar al-
Assad. I find that additional steps must be taken to ensure
meaningful accountability for perpetrators of war crimes, human
rights violations and abuses, and the proliferation of
narcotics trafficking networks in and in relation to Syria
during the former regime of Bashar al-Assad and by those
associated with it. Perpetrators of such actions threaten to
undermine peace, security, and stability in the region, and
thereby constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the
national security and foreign policy of the United States.
(a) I hereby expand the scope of the national emergency
declared in Executive Order 13894 of October 14, 2019 (Blocking
Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing
to the Situation in Syria), as amended in and relied on for
additional steps taken in ExecutIve Order 14142 of January 15,
2025 (Taking Additional Steps With Respect to the SituatIon in
Syria), to deal with that threat, and accordingly further amend
Executive Order 13894 by:
(i) striking section 1(a) and inserting, in lieu
thereof, the following:
``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) any person determined by the Secretary of the
Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State:
(A) to be responsible for or complicit in, or
to have directly or indirectly engaged in, or
attempted to engage in, any of the following in
or in relation to Syria,
(1) actions or policies that further
threaten the peace, security,
stability, or territorial integrity of
Syria; or
(2) the commission of serious human
rights abuse;
(B) to be a 'former government official of
the former regime of Bashar al-Assad or a
person who acted for or on behalf of such an
official;
(C) to have engaged in, or attempted to
engage in, activities or transactions that have
materially contributed to, or pose a
significant risk of materially contributing to,
the illicit production and international
illicit proliferation of captagon;
(D) to be responsible for or complicit in, to
have directly or indirectly engaged in, or to
be responsible for ordering, controlling, or
otherwise directing, instances in which a
United States national ((i) as defined in 8
U.S.C. 1101(a)(22) or 8 U.S.C. 1408, or (ii) a
lawful permanent resident with significant ties
to the United States) went missing in Syria
during the former regime of Bashar al-Assad;
(E) to have materially assisted, sponsored,
or provided financial, material, or
technological support for, or goods or services
to or in support of:
(1) the former regime of Bashar al-
Assad;
(2) any activity described in
subsections (a)(i)(A)-(a)(i)(D) of this
section; or (3) any person whose
property and interests in property are
blocked pursuant to this order;
(F) 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 order; or
(G) to be an adult family member of a person
designated under subsections (a)(i)(A)-
(a)(i)(D) of this section.''; and
(ii) striking section 2(a) and inserting, in lieu
thereof, the following:
``Sec. 2. (a) The Secretary of State, in consultation with
the Secretary of the Treasury and other officials of the United
States Government as appropriate, is hereby authorized to
impose on a foreign person any of the sanctions described in
subsections (b) and (c) of this section, upon determining that
the person, on or after the date of this order:
(i) is responsible for or complicit in, has directly
or indirectly engaged in, or attempted to engage in, or
financed the obstruction, disruption, or prevention of
efforts to promote a Syria that is stable, unified, and
at peace with itself and its neighbors, including:
(A) the convening and conduct of a credible
and inclusive Syrian-led constitutional
process;
(B) the preparation for and conduct of
supervised elections, pursuant to the new
constitution, that are free and fair and to the
highest international standards of transparency
and accountability; or
(C) the development of a Syrian government
that is representative and reflects the will of
the Syrian people;
(ii) is an adult family member of a person designated
under subsection (a)(i) of this section; or (iii) is
responsible for or complicit in, or has directly or
indirectly engaged in, or attempted to engage in, the
expropriation of property, including real property, for
personal gain or political purposes in Syria.''
(b) I additionally amend Executive Order 13606 of April 22,
2012 (Blocking the Property and Suspending Entry into the
United States of Certain Persons With Respect to Grave Human
Rights Abuses by the Governments of Iran and Syria Via
Information Technology), by removing the following text from
the preamble: ``Executive Order 13338 of May 11, 2004, as
modified in scope and relied upon for additional steps in
subsequent Executive Orders'' and replacing it with:
``Executive Order 13894 of October 14, 2019, and relied upon
for additional steps and further amended in subsequent
Executive Orders.''
Sec. 5. Caesar Act. The Secretary of State, in consultation
with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall examine whether the
criteria set forth in section 7431(a) of the Caesar Act have
been met, and on the basis of that examination may, pursuant to
the Presidential Memorandum of March 31, 2020 (Delegation of
Certain Functions and Authorities Under the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020), suspend in whole or in
part the imposition of sanctions otherwise required under the
Caesar Act. If the Secretary of State determines to suspend in
whole or in part the imposition of such sanctions, the
Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the
Treasury, shall provide the briefing to the appropriate
congressional committees required by section 7431(b) of the
Caesar Act within 30 days of such determination. Further, the
Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the
Treasury, shall continue to review the situation in Syria, and
if the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary
of the Treasury, determines that the criteria set forth in
section 7431(a) are no longer met, the Secretary of State shall
reimpose sanctions.
Sec. 6. Syria Accountability Act. I hereby determine
pursuant to section 5(b) of the Syria Accountability Act that
it is in the national security interest of the United States to
waive the application of subsection (a)(1), with respect to
items on the Commerce Control List (supp. No. 1 to 15 C.F.R.
part 774) only, and subsection (a)(2)(A) of the Syria
Accountability Act only. The Secretary of State shall submit to
the appropriate congressional committees the report required
under section 5(b) of that Act.
Sec. 7. CBW Act. (a) Pursuant to section 307(d)(1)(B) of
the CBW Act, I hereby determine and certify that there has been
a fundamental change in the leadership and policies of the
Government of the Syrian Arab Republic. Accordingly, I hereby
waive the following sanctions imposed on Syria for the prior
use of chemical weapons under the former regime of Bashar al-
Assad:
(i) the restriction on foreign assistance under
section 307(a)(1) of the CBW Act;
(ii) the restriction on United States Government
credit, credit guarantees, or other financial
assistance under section 307(a)(4) of the CBW Act;
(iii) the restrictions on the export of national
security-sensitive goods and technology under section
307(a)(5) of the CBW Act and on all other goods and
technology under section 307(b)(2)(C) of the CBW Act;
and
(iv) the restriction on United States banks from
making any loan or providing any credit to the
Government of Syria under section 307(b)(2)(B) of the
CBW Act.
(b) The Secretary of State shall transmit this waiver
determination and report as required by sections 307(d)(1)(B)
and (d)(2) of the CBW Act to the appropriate congressional
committees. This waiver shall be effective 20 days after it has
been so transmitted.
Sec. 8. Counterterrorism Designations. (a) The Secretary of
State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and
the Attorney General, shall take all appropriate action with
respect to the designation of al-Nusrah Front, also known as
Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and other aliases, as a Foreign Terrorist
Organization under 8 U.S.C. 1189 and as a Specially Designated
Global Terrorist under 50 U.S.C. 1702 and Executive Order
13224, as well as the designation of Abu Muhammad al-Jawlani,
commonly known as Ahmed al-Sharaa, as a Specially Designated
Global Terrorist.
(b) The Secretary of State shall take all appropriate
action to review the designation of Syria as a State Sponsor of
Terrorism consistent with section 1754(c) of the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115-
232; 50 U.S.C. 4813(c)), section 40 of the Arms Export Control
Act (Public Law 90-629, as amended; 22 U.S.C. 2780), and
section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (Public Law
87-195, as amended; 22 U.S.C. 2371).
Sec. 9. United Nations. The Secretary of State shall take
appropriate steps to advance United States policy objectives at
the United Nations to support a Syria that is stable and at
peace and to support Syrian efforts to counter terrorism and
comply with its responsibilities and obligations concerning
weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological
weapons. The Secretary of State is further directed to explore
avenues at the United Nations to provide sanctions relief in
support of these objectives.
Sec. 10. Implementation. The Secretary of State, the
Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Commerce, as
appropriate, are hereby authorized to take such actions,
including adopting rules and regulations, as may be necessary
to implement this order. The Secretary of State, the Secretary
of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Commerce may, consistent
with applicable law, redelegate any of these functions within
their respective agencies. The Secretary of State, in
consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary
of Commerce, and the Secretary of Transportation, as
appropriate, is authorized to exercise the functions and
authorities conferred upon the President in section 5 of the
Syria Accountability Act and to redelegate these functions and
authorities consistent with applicable law. All agencies of the
United States shall take all appropriate measures within their
authority to implement this order, consistent with applicable
law.
Sec. 11. General Provisions. (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.
(d) The costs for publication of this order shall be borne
by the Department of State.
Donald J. Trump.
The White House, June 30, 2025.
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