EXECUTIVE
ORDER		 EO 13067
Effective Date: November 03, 1997
Responsible Office: Office of Policy Coordination and International Relations
Subject: Blocking Sudanese Government Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Sudan
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 government 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

        (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 am 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
                                                /s/


THE WHITE HOUSE,
November 3, 1997. 



	
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