I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1531 
To facilitate the export of United States agricultural products to Cuba as 
authorized by the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement 
Act of 2000, to remove impediments to the export to Cuba of medical 
devices and medicines, to allow travel to Cuba by United States legal 
residents, to establish an agricultural export promotion program with 
respect to Cuba, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 16, 2009 
Mr. RANGEL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Ways 
and Means, the Judiciary, Agriculture, and Financial Services, for a pe-
riod to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for con-
sideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To facilitate the export of United States agricultural prod-
ucts to Cuba as authorized by the Trade Sanctions Re-
form and Export Enhancement Act of 2000, to remove 
impediments to the export to Cuba of medical devices 
and medicines, to allow travel to Cuba by United States 
legal residents, to establish an agricultural export pro-
motion program with respect to Cuba, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Promoting American 
Agricultural and Medical Exports to Cuba Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF PAYMENT TERMS UNDER THE 
TRADE SANCTIONS REFORM AND EXPORT EN-
HANCEMENT ACT OF 2000. 
Section 908(b)(4) of the Trade Sanctions Reform and 
Export Enhancement Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7207(b)(4)) 
is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(2) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(C) the term ‘payment of cash in ad-
vance’ means, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the payment by the purchaser of an 
agricultural commodity or product and the re-
ceipt of such payment by the seller prior to— 
‘‘(i) the transfer of title of such com-
modity or product to the purchaser; and 
‘‘(ii) the release of control of such 
commodity or product to the purchaser.’’. 
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SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF DIRECT TRANSFERS BETWEEN 
CUBAN AND UNITED STATES FINANCIAL IN-
STITUTIONS UNDER THE TRADE SANCTIONS 
REFORM AND EXPORT ENHANCEMENT ACT 
OF 2000. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the President may not restrict direct transfers 
from a Cuban depository institution to a United States 
depository institution executed in payment for a product 
authorized for sale under the Trade Sanctions Reform and 
Export Enhancement Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7201 et 
seq.). 
(b) DEPOSITORY INSTITUTION DEFINED.—In this 
section, the term ‘‘depository institution’’ means any enti-
ty that is engaged primarily in the business of banking 
(including a bank, savings bank, savings association, cred-
it union, trust company, or bank holding company). 
SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXPORT PRO-
MOTION PROGRAM WITH RESPECT TO CUBA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall 
establish a program to provide information and technical 
assistance to United States agricultural producers, cooper-
ative organizations, or state agencies that promote the sale 
of agricultural commodities, in order to promote and facili-
tate United States exports of agricultural products to 
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Cuba as authorized by the Trade Sanctions Reform and 
Export Enhancement Act of 2000. 
(b) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO FACILITATE EX-
PORTS.—The Secretary shall maintain on the website of 
the Department of Agriculture information to assist ex-
porters and potential exporters of United States agricul-
tural commodities with respect to Cuba. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDS.—The Secretary is 
authorized to expend such sums as may be available in 
the Agricultural Export Promotion Trust Fund estab-
lished under section 9511 of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986 (as added by section 9(b) of this Act). 
SEC. 5. ISSUANCE OF VISAS TO CONDUCT ACTIVITIES IN 
ACCORDANCE WITH THE TRADE SANCTIONS 
REFORM AND EXPORT ENHANCEMENT ACT 
OF 2000. 
(a) ISSUANCE OF VISAS.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, in the case of a Cuban national whose 
itinerary documents an intent to conduct activities, includ-
ing phytosanitary inspections, related to purchasing 
United States agricultural goods under the provisions of 
the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement 
Act of 2000, a consular officer (as defined in section 
101(a)(9) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1101(a)(9))) may issue a nonimmigrant visa under 
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section 
101(a)(15)(B) 
of 
such 
Act 
(8 
U.S.C. 
1101(a)(15)(B)) to the national, if the national is not in-
admissible to the United States under section 212 of such 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1182). 
(b) PERIODIC REPORTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 45 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act and every 3 
months thereafter the Secretary of State shall sub-
mit to the Committees on Finance, Agriculture, Nu-
trition, and Forestry, and Foreign Relations of the 
Senate and the Committees on Agriculture, Ways 
and Means, and Foreign Affairs of the House of 
Representatives a report on the issuance of visas de-
scribed in subsection (a). 
(2) CONTENT OF REPORTS.—Each report shall 
contain a full description of each application received 
from a Cuban national to travel to the United States 
to engage in purchasing activities pursuant to the 
Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement 
Act of 2000 and shall describe the disposition of 
each such application. 
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SEC. 6. ADHERENCE TO INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS 
FOR THE MUTUAL PROTECTION OF INTEL-
LECTUAL PROPERTY. 
(a) REPEAL OF PROHIBITION ON TRANSACTIONS OR 
PAYMENTS WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN UNITED STATES 
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.—Section 211 of the Depart-
ment of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1999 (section 101(b) of division A of Public Law 
105–277; 112 Stat. 2681–88), is repealed. 
(b) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of the Treasury 
shall promulgate such regulations as are necessary to 
carry out the repeal made by paragraph (1), including re-
moving any prohibition on transactions or payments to 
which subsection (a)(1) of section 211 of the Department 
of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
1999 (as such section was in effect on the day before the 
date of the enactment of this Act), applied. 
(c) FURTHER REGULATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treas-
ury shall amend part 515 of title 31, Code of Fed-
eral Regulations (the Cuban assets control regula-
tions), to authorize under general license the trans-
fer or receipt of any trademark or trade name sub-
ject to United States law in which a designated na-
tional has an interest. 
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(2) DESIGNATED NATIONAL DEFINED.—In this 
subsection, the term ‘‘designated national’’ has the 
meaning given the term in subsection (d)(1) of sec-
tion 211 of the Department of Commerce and Re-
lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (as such 
section was in effect on the day before the date of 
the enactment of this Act). 
SEC. 7. TRAVEL TO CUBA. 
(a) FREEDOM OF TRAVEL FOR UNITED STATES CITI-
ZENS AND LEGAL RESIDENTS.—Subject to subsection (c), 
the President shall not regulate or prohibit, directly or in-
directly, travel to or from Cuba by United States citizens 
or legal residents, or any of the transactions incident to 
such travel that are set forth in subsection (b). The Presi-
dent shall rescind all regulations in effect on the date of 
the enactment of this Act that so regulate or prohibit such 
travel or transactions. 
(b) TRANSACTIONS INCIDENT
TO TRAVEL.—The 
transactions referred to in subsection (a) are— 
(1) any transactions ordinarily incident to trav-
el to or from Cuba, including the importation into 
Cuba or the United States of accompanied baggage 
for personal use only; 
(2) any transactions ordinarily incident to trav-
el or maintenance within Cuba, including the pay-
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