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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;

     (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
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 eastern daylight
time on May 21, 1994.

     (b) This order shall be transmitted to the Congress and
published in the Federal Register.

                         /s/William J. Clinton


THE WHITE HOUSE,
May 21, 1994.