[Federal Register: June 27, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 125)] [Presidential Documents] [Page 36783-36786] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr27jn08-124] [[Page 36783]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Part V The President ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Proclamation 8271--Termination of the Exercise of Authorities Under the Trading With the Enemy Act With Respect to North Korea Executive Order 13466--Continuing Certain Restrictions With Respect to North Korea and North Korean Nationals Presidential Documents ___________________________________________________________________ Title 3-- The President [[Page 36785]] Proclamation 8271 of June 26, 2008 Termination of the Exercise of Authorities Under the Trading With the Enemy Act With Respect to North Korea By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 101(b) of Public Law 95-223 (91 Stat. 1625; 50 U.S.C. App. 5(b) note), hereby find that the continuation of the exercise of authorities under the Trading With the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. App. 1 et seq.) (TWEA) with respect to North Korea, as authorized in Proclamation 2914 of December 16, 1950, most recently continued under Presidential Determination 2007-32 of September 13, 2007 (72 FR 53407), and implemented by the regulations set forth below, is no longer in the national interest of the United States. Section 1. The exercise of TWEA authorities with respect to North Korea, which were implemented by the Foreign Assets Control Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 500, and the Transaction Control Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 505, and that were continued by Presidential Determination 2007-32 of September 13, 2007, is terminated, and Presidential Determination 2007-32 is rescinded with respect to North Korea. Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to take all appropriate measures within the Secretary's authority to give effect to this proclamation. Sec. 3. This proclamation is not intended to, and does not, create any right, benefit, or privilege, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity, by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers or employees, or any other person. Sec. 4. This proclamation is effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on June 27, 2008. [[Page 36786]] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-second. (Presidential Sig.) [FR Doc. 08-1398 Filed 6-26-08; 10:27 am] Billing code 3195-W8-P
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