[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 45 (Monday, November 10, 1997)]
[Pages 1727-1728]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13067--Blocking Sudanese Government Property and 
Prohibiting Transactions With Sudan

November 3, 1997

    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.), and section 301 of 
title 3, United States Code;
    I, William J. Clinton, President of the United States of America, 
find that the policies and actions of the Government of Sudan, including 
continued support for international terrorism; ongoing efforts to 
destabilize neighboring governments; and the prevalence of human rights 
violations, including slavery and the denial of religious freedom, 
constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security 
and foreign policy of the United States, and hereby declare a national 
emergency to deal with that threat. I hereby order:
    Section 1. Except to the extent provided in section 203(b) of IEEPA 
(50 U.S.C. 1702(b)) and in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses 
that may be issued pursuant to this order, all property and interests in 
property of the Government of Sudan that are in the United States, that 
hereafter come within the United States, or that hereafter come within 
the possession or control of United States persons, including their 
overseas branches, are blocked.
    Sec. 2. The following are prohibited, except to the extent provided 
in section 203(b) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)) and in regulations, 
orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this 
order:
    (a) the importation into the United States of any goods or services 
of Sudanese origin, other than information or informational materials;
    (b) the exportation or reexportation, directly or indirectly, to 
Sudan of any goods, technology (including technical data, software, or 
other information), or services from the United States or by a United 
States person, wherever located, or requiring the issuance of a license 
by a Federal agency, except for donations of articles intended to 
relieve human suffering, such as food, clothing, and medicine;
    (c) the facilitation by a United States person, including but not 
limited to brokering activities, of the exportation or reexportation of 
goods, technology, or services from Sudan to any destination, or to 
Sudan from any location;
    (d) the performance by any United States person of any contract, 
including a financing contract, in support of an industrial, commercial, 
public utility, or governmental project in Sudan;
    (e) the grant or extension of credits or loans by any United States 
person to the Government of Sudan;
    (f) any transaction by a United States person relating to 
transportation of cargo to or from Sudan; the provision of 
transportation of cargo to or from the United States by any Sudanese 
person or any vessel or aircraft of Sudanese registration; or the sale 
in the United States by any person holding authority under subtitle 7 of 
title 49, United States Code, of any transportation of cargo by air that 
includes any stop in Sudan; and
    (g) any transaction by any United States person or within the United 
States 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. 3.  Nothing in this order shall prohibit:
    (a) transactions for the conduct of the official business of the 
Federal Government or the United Nations by employees thereof; or
    (b) transactions in Sudan for journalistic activity by persons 
regularly employed in such capacity by a news-gathering organization.
    Sec. 4.  For the purposes of this order:
    (a) the term ``person'' means an individual or entity;
    (b) the term ``entity'' means a partnership, association, trust, 
joint venture, corporation, or other organization;
    (c) the term ``United States person'' means any United States 
citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of 
the United States (including foreign branches), or any person in the 
United States; and

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    (d) the term ``Government of Sudan'' includes the Government of 
Sudan, its agencies, instrumentalities and controlled entities, and the 
Central Bank of Sudan.
    Sec. 5.  The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State and, as appropriate, other agencies, is hereby 
authorized to take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and 
regulations, and to employ all powers granted to me by IEEPA, 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.
    Sec. 6.  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. 7.  (a) This order shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. eastern 
standard time on November 4, 1997, except that trade transactions under 
contracts in force as of the effective date of this order may be 
performed pursuant to their terms through 12:01 a.m. eastern standard 
time on December 4, 1997, and letters of credit and other financing 
agreements for such underlying trade transactions may be performed 
pursuant to their terms.
    (b) This order shall be transmitted to the Congress and published in 
the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
November 3, 1997.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:22 a.m., November 4, 
1997]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on November 4, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
November 5.