Blocking Property of the Government of Venezuela, 38843-38845 [2019-17052]

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[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 152 (Wednesday, August 7, 2019)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 38843-38845]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-17052]



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Vol. 84

Wednesday,

No. 152

August 7, 2019

Part IV





The President





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Executive Order 13884--Blocking Property of the Government of Venezuela


                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 84 , No. 152 / Wednesday, August 7, 2019 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Executive Order 13884 of August 5, 2019

                
Blocking Property of the Government of Venezuela

                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.), 
                section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
                of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, 
                United States Code,

                I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of 
                America, in order to take additional steps with respect 
                to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 
                13692 of March 8, 2015 (Blocking Property and 
                Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the 
                Situation in Venezuela), as amended, as relied upon for 
                additional steps taken in subsequent Executive Orders, 
                and in light of the continued usurpation of power by 
                Nicolas Maduro and persons affiliated with him, as well 
                as human rights abuses, including arbitrary or unlawful 
                arrest and detention of Venezuelan citizens, 
                interference with freedom of expression, including for 
                members of the media, and ongoing attempts to undermine 
                Interim President Juan Guaido and the Venezuelan 
                National Assembly's exercise of legitimate authority in 
                Venezuela, hereby order:

                Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property 
                of the Government of Venezuela that are in the United 
                States, that hereafter come within the United States, 
                or that are or hereafter come within the possession or 
                control of any United States person are blocked and may 
                not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or 
                otherwise dealt in.

                    (b) All property and interests in property that are 
                in the United States, that hereafter come within the 
                United States, or that are or hereafter come within the 
                possession or control of any United States person of 
                the following persons are blocked and may not be 
                transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise 
                dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary of the 
                Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State:

(i) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, 
material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in 
support of, any person included on the list of Specially Designated 
Nationals and Blocked Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets 
Control whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to 
this order; or

(ii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for 
or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and 
interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.

                    (c) The prohibitions in subsections (a)-(b) of this 
                section apply except to the extent provided by 
                statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or 
                licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and 
                notwithstanding any contract entered into or any 
                license or permit granted prior to the effective date 
                of this order.

                Sec. 2. The unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant 
                entry into the United States of aliens determined to 
                meet one or more of the criteria in section 1(b) of 
                this order would be detrimental to the interests of the 
                United States, and entry of such persons into the 
                United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, is 
                hereby suspended, except when the Secretary of State 
                determines that the person's entry would not be 
                contrary to the interests of

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                the United States, including when the Secretary so 
                determines, based on a recommendation of the Attorney 
                General, that the person's entry would further 
                important United States law enforcement objectives. In 
                exercising this responsibility, the Secretary of State 
                shall consult the Secretary of Homeland Security on 
                matters related to admissibility or inadmissibility 
                within the authority of the Secretary of Homeland 
                Security. Such persons shall be treated in the same 
                manner as persons covered by section 1 of Proclamation 
                8693 of July 24, 2011 (Suspension of Entry of Aliens 
                Subject to United Nations Security Council Travel Bans 
                and International Emergency Economic Powers Act 
                Sanctions). The Secretary of State shall have the 
                responsibility for implementing this section pursuant 
                to such conditions and procedures as the Secretary has 
                established or may establish pursuant to Proclamation 
                8693.

                Sec. 3. The prohibitions in section 1 of this order 
                include:

                    (a) the making of any contribution or provision of 
                funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of 
                any person whose property and interests in property are 
                blocked pursuant to this order; and
                    (b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of 
                funds, goods, or services from any such person.

                Sec. 4. (a) Any transaction that evades or avoids, has 
                the purpose of evading or avoiding, causes a violation 
                of, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set 
                forth in this order is prohibited.

                    (b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the 
                prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.

                Sec. 5. Nothing in this order shall prohibit:

                    (a) transactions for the conduct of the official 
                business of the Federal Government by employees, 
                grantees, or contractors thereof; or
                    (b) transactions related to the provision of 
                articles such as food, clothing, and medicine intended 
                to be used to relieve human suffering.

                Sec. 6. 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, group, 
                subgroup, 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 or any 
                jurisdiction within the United States (including 
                foreign branches), or any person in the United States; 
                and
                    (d) the term ``Government of Venezuela'' includes 
                the state and Government of Venezuela, any political 
                subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof, 
                including the Central Bank of Venezuela and Petroleos 
                de Venezuela, S.A. (PdVSA), any person owned or 
                controlled, directly or indirectly, by the foregoing, 
                and any person who has acted or purported to act 
                directly or indirectly for or on behalf of, any of the 
                foregoing, including as a member of the Maduro regime. 
                For the purposes of section 2 of this order, the term 
                ``Government of Venezuela'' shall not include any 
                United States citizen, any permanent resident alien of 
                the United States, any alien lawfully admitted to the 
                United States, or any alien holding a valid United 
                States visa.

                Sec. 7. For those persons whose property and interests 
                in property are blocked pursuant to this order who 
                might have a constitutional presence in the United 
                States, I find that because of the ability to transfer 
                funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to 
                such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this 
                order would render those measures ineffectual. I 
                therefore determine that for these measures to be 
                effective in addressing the national emergency declared 
                in Executive Order 13692, there need be no prior notice 
                of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 
                1 of this order.

                Sec. 8. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
                with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to 
                take such actions, including promulgating

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                rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted 
                to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to 
                implement this order. The Secretary of the Treasury 
                may, consistent with applicable law, redelegate any of 
                these functions within the Department of the Treasury. 
                All agencies of the United States Government shall take 
                all appropriate measures within their authority to 
                carry out the provisions of this order.

                Sec. 9. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to 
                impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.
                    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.

                Sec. 10. This order is effective at 9:00 a.m. eastern 
                daylight time on August 5, 2019.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    August 5, 2019.

[FR Doc. 2019-17052
Filed 8-6-19; 11:15 am]
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