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89–011 2019

116th Congress, 1st Session – – – – – – – – – – – – – House Document 116–33 

TAKING ADDITIONAL STEPS TO ADDRESS THE 

NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO IRAN 

MESSAGE 

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRANSMITTING

NOTIFICATION OF THE ISSUANCE OF AN EXECUTIVE ORDER WITH 

RESPECT TO IRAN THAT TAKES ADDITIONAL STEPS WITH RESPECT TO THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 12957 OF MARCH 15, 1995, AND TO SUPPLEMENT 

THE AUTHORITIES PROVIDED IN THE IRAN FREEDOM AND 

COUNTER-PROLIFERATION ACT OF 2012, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 

1703(b); PUBLIC LAW 95–223 SEC. 204(b); (91 STAT. 1627) 

MAY 8, 2019.—Message and accompanying papers referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Financial Services, and ordered to be 

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To the Congress of the United States: 

Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act 

(50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have issued 

an Executive Order (the ‘‘order’’) with respect to Iran that takes additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in 

Executive Order 12957 of March 15, 1995, and to supplement the 

authorities provided in the Iran Freedom and Counter-Proliferation 

Act of 2012 (subtitle D of title XII of Public Law 112–239). 

The order takes steps to deny Iran revenue, including revenue 

derived from the export of products from Iran’s iron, steel, aluminum, and copper sectors, that may be used to provide funding 

and support for the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, 

terrorist groups and networks, campaigns of regional aggression, 

and military expansion. 

The order blocks the property and interests in property of persons determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 

with the Secretary of State: 

• to be operating in the iron, steel, aluminum, or copper sector of Iran, or to be a person that owns, controls, or operates 

an entity that is part of the iron, steel, aluminum, or copper 

sector of Iran; 

• to have knowingly engaged, on or after the date of the 

order, in a significant transaction for the sale, supply, or transfer to Iran of significant goods or services used in connection 

with the iron, steel, aluminum, or copper sectors of Iran; 

• to have knowingly engaged, on or after the date of the 

order, in a significant transaction for the purchase, acquisition, 

sale, transport, or marketing of iron, iron products, aluminum, 

aluminum products, steel, steel products, copper, or copper 

products from Iran; 

• to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services 

in support of, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the order; or 

• 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 the order. 

The order also authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to impose correspondent and 

payable-through account-related sanctions on a foreign financial institution upon determining the foreign financial institution has, on 

or after the date of the order, knowingly conducted or facilitated a 

significant financial transaction: 

• for the sale, supply, or transfer to Iran of significant goods 

or services used in connection with the iron, steel, aluminum, 

or copper sectors of Iran; 


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• for the purchase, acquisition, sale, transport, or marketing 

of iron, iron products, aluminum, aluminum products, steel, 

steel products, copper, or copper products from Iran; or • for or on behalf of any persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the order. 

I have delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 

with the Secretary of State, the authority to take such actions, including adopting rules and regulations, to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to implement 

the order. 

I am enclosing a copy of the order I have issued. 

DONALD J. TRUMP. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, May 8, 2019. 


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EXECUTIVE ORDER 

IMPOSING SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE IRON, STEEL, ALUMINUM, AND COPPER SECTORS OF IRAN

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, 

find that: 

It remains the policy of the United States to deny Iran all paths 

to both a nuclear weapon and intercontinental ballistic missiles, 

and to counter the totality of Iran’s malign influence in the Middle 

East. It is also the policy of the United States to deny the Iranian 

government revenue, including revenue derived from the export of 

products from Iran’s iron, steel, aluminum, and copper sectors, that 

may be used to provide funding and support for the proliferation 

of weapons of mass destruction, terrorist groups and networks, 

campaigns of regional aggression, and military expansion. 

In light of these findings and in order to take further steps with 

respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 

12957 of March 15, 1995, and to supplement the authorities provided in the Iran Freedom and Counter-Proliferation Act of 2012 

(subtitle D of title XII of Public Law 112–239), I hereby order: 

Section 1. (a) 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 be operating in the iron, steel, aluminum, or copper sector of Iran, or to be a person that owns, controls, or operates 

an entity that is part of the iron, steel, aluminum, or copper 

sector of Iran; 

(ii) to have knowingly engaged, on or after the date of this 

order, in a significant transaction for the sale, supply, or transfer to Iran of significant goods or services used in connection 

with the iron, steel, aluminum, or copper sectors of Iran; 

(iii) to have knowingly engaged, on or after the date of this 

order, in a significant transaction for the purchase, acquisition, 

sale, transport, or marketing of iron, iron products, aluminum, 

aluminum products, steel, steel products, copper, or copper 

products from Iran; 


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(iv) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services 

in support of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this section; or 

(v) 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 section. 

(b) The prohibitions in 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 

before the date of this order. 

Sec. 2. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 

Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to impose on a foreign financial institution the sanctions described in subsection (b) of this 

section upon determining that the foreign financial institution has, 

on or after the date of this order, knowingly conducted or facilitated any significant financial transaction: 

(i) for the sale, supply, or transfer to Iran of significant goods 

or services used in connection with the iron, steel, aluminum, 

or copper sectors of Iran; 

(ii) for the purchase, acquisition, sale, transport, or marketing of iron, iron products, aluminum, aluminum products, 

steel, steel products, copper, or copper products from Iran; or 

(iii) for or on behalf of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order. 

(b) With respect to any foreign financial institution determined 

by the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with this section to 

meet any of the criteria set forth in subsection (a)(i) through (a)(iii) 

of this section, the Secretary of the Treasury may prohibit the 

opening, and prohibit or impose strict conditions on maintaining, in 

the United States of a correspondent account or payable-through 

account by such foreign financial institution. 

(c) The prohibitions in subsection (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 before the date of this order. 

Sec. 3. I hereby determine that the making of donations of the 

types of articles specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 

1702(b)(2)) by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property 

and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order would 

seriously impair my ability to deal with the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12957, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by this section. 

Sec. 4. 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 subsection (a) of 

that section; and 

(b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, 

or services from any such person. 


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Sec. 5. The unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into 

the United States of aliens determined to meet one or more of the 

criteria in subsection 1(a) of this order would be detrimental to the 

interests of the United States, and the entry of such persons into 

the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, is therefore 

hereby suspended. Such persons shall be treated 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). 

Sec. 6. (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. 7. Nothing in this order shall apply to transactions for the 

conduct of the official business of the Federal Government or the 

United Nations (including its specialized agencies, programmes, 

funds, and related organizations) by employees, grantees, or contractors thereof. 

Sec. 8. For the purposes of this order: 

(a) the term ‘‘entity’’ means a partnership, association, trust, 

joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization; 

(b) the term ‘‘foreign financial institution’’ means any foreign entity that is engaged in the business of accepting deposits, making, 

granting, transferring, holding, or brokering loans or credits, or 

purchasing or selling foreign exchange, securities, commodity futures or options, or procuring purchasers and sellers thereof, as 

principal or agent. It includes, but is not limited to, depository institutions, banks, savings banks, money service businesses, trust 

companies, securities brokers and dealers, commodity futures and 

options brokers and dealers, forward contract and foreign exchange 

merchants, securities and commodities exchanges, clearing corporations, investment companies, employee benefit plans, dealers in 

precious metals, stones, or jewels, and holding companies, affiliates, or subsidiaries of any of the foregoing. The term does not include the international financial institutions identified in 22 U.S.C. 

262r(c)(2), the International Fund for Agricultural Development, 

the North American Development Bank, or any other international 

financial institution so notified by the Secretary of the Treasury; 

(c) the term ‘‘Government of Iran’’ includes the Government of 

Iran, any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof, 

including the Central Bank of Iran, and any person owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, the Government of Iran; 

(d) the term ‘‘Iran’’ means the Government of Iran and the territory of Iran and any other territory or marine area, including the 

exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, over which the Government of Iran claims sovereignty, sovereign rights, or jurisdiction, provided that the Government of Iran exercises partial or 

total de facto control over the area or derives a benefit from economic activity in the area pursuant to international arrangements; 

(e) the term ‘‘knowingly,’’ with respect to conduct, a circumstance, or a result, means that a person has actual knowledge, 


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or should have known, of the conduct, the circumstance, or the result; 

(f) the term ‘‘person’’ means an individual or entity; and 

(g) 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. 

Sec. 9. 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 12957, there need be no 

prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 

1 of this order. 

Sec. 10. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 

Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including adopting 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 shall take all appropriate 

measures within their authority to implement this order. 

Sec. 11. (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. 12. The measures taken pursuant to this order are in response to actions of the Government of Iran occurring after the 

conclusion of the 1981 Algiers Accords, and are intended solely as 

a response to those later actions. 

DONALD J. TRUMP. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, May 8, 2019. 

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