Administration of Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 2022

To the Congress of the United States:

Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 *et seq.*), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 *et seq.*), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order in order to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14024 of April 15, 2021, with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States posed by specified harmful foreign activities of the Government of the Russian Federation.

The order prohibits the following: (i) new investment in the Russian Federation by a United States person, wherever located; (ii) the exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply, directly or indirectly, from the United States, or by a United States person, wherever located, of any category of services as may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to any person located in the Russian Federation; and (iii) any approval, financing, facilitation, or guarantee by a United States person, wherever located, of a transaction by a foreign person where the transaction by that foreign person would be prohibited by this section if performed by a United States person or within the United States.

I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued.

JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.

The White House, April 6, 2022.

NOTE: An original was not available for verification of the content of this message.

Categories: Communications to Congress : Russian Federation :: New investment in and certain services to, message on prohibition in response to continued aggression.

Subjects: Russia : International and U.S. sanctions; Russia : Ukraine, airstrikes and invasion; Treasury, Department of the : Secretary; Ukraine : Russian airstrikes and invasion.

DCPD Number: DCPD202200260.

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