[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 23 (Monday, June 13, 1994)]
[Pages 1261-1262]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12920--Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to 
Haiti

June 10, 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, 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) Any payment 
or transfer of funds or other financial or investment assets or credits 
to Haiti from or through the United States, or to or through the United 
States from Haiti, except for:
    (i) payments and transfers for the conduct of activities in Haiti of 
the United States Government, the United Nations, the Organization of 
American States, or foreign diplomatic missions;
    (ii) payments and transfers between the United States and Haiti for 
the conduct of activities in Haiti of nongovernmental organizations 
engaged in the provision in Haiti of essential humanitarian assistance 
as authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury;
    (iii) payments and transfers from a United States person to any 
close relative of the remitter or of the remitter's spouse who is 
resident in Haiti, provided that such payments

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do not exceed $50 per month to any one household, and 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 beneficiary 
of the remittance;
    (iv) reasonable amounts of funds carried by travelers to or from 
Haiti to cover their travel-related expense; and
    (v) payments and transfers incidental to shipments to Haiti of food, 
medicine, medical supplies, and informational materials exempt from the 
export prohibitions of this order;
    (b) 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, technology, or services, 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
    (iii) donations of food, medicine, and medical supplies intended to 
relieve human suffering; and
    (c) 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 
effective date of this order.
    Sec. 4. 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. 5.
    (a) This order shall take effect at 11:59 a.m., eastern daylight 
time on June 10, 1994.
    (b) This order shall be transmitted to the Congress and published in 
the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
June 10, 1994.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 3:40 p.m., June 10, 
1994]

Note: This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register on 
June 14.