[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 21 (Monday, May 30, 1994)]
[Pages 1147-1148]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12917--Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to 
Haiti

May 21, 1994

    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.), section 5 of the United 
Nations Participation Act of 1945, as amended (22 U.S.C. 287c), and 
section 301 of title 3, United States Code, in view of United Nations 
Security Council Resolution 917 of May 6, 1994, and in order to take 
additional steps with respect to the actions and policies of the de 
facto regime in Haiti and the national emergency described and declared 
in Executive Order No. 12775, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. The following are prohibited, except to the extent 
provided in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses which may 
hereafter be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding the 
existence of any rights or obligations conferred or imposed by any 
international agreement or any contract entered into or any license or 
permit granted before the effective date of this order:
    (a) The importation into the United States of any goods (other than 
informational materials, including books and other publications, needed 
for the free flow of information) originating in Haiti, or of any 
services performed in Haiti, that are exported from Haiti after May 21, 
1994; or any activity by United States persons or in the United States 
that promotes or is intended to promote such importation;

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    (b) Any activity by United States persons or in the United States 
that promotes the exportation or transshipment of any goods (other than 
informational materials, such as books and other publications, needed 
for the free flow of information) originating in Haiti that are exported 
from Haiti after May 21, 1994;
    (c) Any dealing by United States persons or in the United States, or 
using U.S.-registered vessels or aircraft, in any goods (other than 
informational materials, such as books and other publications, needed 
for the free flow of information) originating in Haiti that are exported 
from Haiti after May 21, 1994;
    (d) The sale, supply, or exportation by United States persons or 
from the United States, or using U.S.-registered vessels or aircraft, of 
any goods, regardless of origin, to Haiti, or for the purpose of any 
business carried on in or operated from Haiti, or any activity by United 
States persons or in the United States that promotes such sale, supply, 
or exportation, other than the sale, supply, or exportation of:
        (i) informational materials, such as books and other 
      publications, needed for the free flow of information; or
        (ii) medicines and medical supplies, as authorized by the 
      Secretary of the Treasury, and rice, beans, sugar, wheat flour, 
      cooking oil, corn, corn flour, milk, and edible tallow, provided 
      that neither the de facto regime in Haiti nor any person 
      designated by the Secretary of the Treasury as a blocked 
      individual or entity of Haiti is a direct or indirect party to the 
      transaction; or
    (e) Any transaction by United States persons 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. 2. For the purposes of this order, the definitions contained in 
section 3 of Executive Order No. 12779 apply to the terms used in this 
order.
    Sec. 3. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including 
the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers 
granted to me by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the 
United Nations Participation Act, 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, including suspension or 
termination of licenses or other authorizations in effect as of the date 
of this order.
    Sec. 4. Section 2(c) of Executive Order No. 12779 and section 4 of 
Executive Order No. 12853 are hereby revoked to the extent inconsistent 
with this order. The revocation shall apply only to actions taken after 
the effective date of this order, and shall not alter the applicability 
to any violation that occurred before the effective date of this order 
of any rule, regulation, order, license, or other form of administrative 
action taken pursuant to Executive Order No. 12779 or Executive Order 
No. 12853.
    Sec. 5. 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. 6.
    (a) This order shall take effect at 11:59 p.m. eastern daylight time 
on May 21, 1994.
    (b) This order shall be transmitted to the Congress and published in 
the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
May 21, 1994.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:41 a.m., May 23, 
1994]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on May 
24.