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SEC. 202. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN BURMA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For the 8-year period beginning 
on the date that is 270 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the President shall impose the sanctions 
described in subsection (b) with respect to each foreign 
person that the President determines, based on credible 
evidence— 
(1) is a current or former senior official of the 
military or security forces of Burma who— 
(A) knowingly perpetrated, ordered, or oth-
erwise directed serious human rights abuses in 
Burma; or 
(B) has taken significant steps to impede 
investigations or prosecutions of alleged serious 
human rights abuses, including against the 
Rohingya community in Rakhine State; 
(2) is an entity owned or controlled by any per-
son described in paragraph (1); 
(3) is an entity, such as the Myanmar Eco-
nomic Cooperation or the Myanmar Economic Hold-
ing Corporation, that is owned or controlled, directly 
or indirectly, by the military or security forces of 
Burma, including through collective or cooperative 
structures, from which one or more persons de-
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scribed in paragraph (1) derive significant revenue 
or financial benefit; or 
(4) has knowingly— 
(A) provided significant financial, material, 
or technological support— 
(i) to a foreign person described in 
paragraph (1) in furtherance of any of the 
acts described in subparagraph (A) or (B) 
of such paragraph; or 
(ii) to any entity owned or controlled 
by such person or an immediate family 
member of such person; or 
(B) received significant financial, material, 
or technological support from a foreign person 
described in paragraph (1) or an entity owned 
or controlled by such person or an immediate 
family member of such person. 
(b) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED; EXCEPTIONS.— 
(1) SANCTIONS.—The sanctions described in 
this subsection are the following: 
(A) ASSET
BLOCKING.—Notwithstanding 
the requirements of section 202 of the Inter-
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1701), the exercise of all powers granted 
to the President by such Act to the extent nec-
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essary to block and prohibit all transactions in 
all property and interests in property of a for-
eign person the President determines meets one 
or more of the criteria described in subsection 
(a) if such property and interests in property 
are in the United States, come within the 
United States, or are or come within the pos-
session or control of a United States person. 
(B) ALIENS INADMISSIBLE FOR VISAS, AD-
MISSION, OR PAROLE.— 
(i) VISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.—A 
foreign person described in subsection (a) 
is— 
(I) inadmissible to the United 
States; 
(II) ineligible to receive a visa or 
other documentation to enter the 
United States; and 
(III) otherwise ineligible to be 
admitted or paroled into the United 
States or to receive any other benefit 
under the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.). 
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(ii) CURRENT
VISAS
REVOKED.—A 
foreign person described in subsection (a) 
is subject to the following: 
(I) Revocation of any visa or 
other entry documentation regardless 
of when the visa or other entry docu-
mentation is or was issued. 
(II) A revocation under subclause 
(I) shall— 
(aa) take effect immediately; 
and 
(bb) 
automatically 
cancel 
any other valid visa or entry doc-
umentation that is in the foreign 
person’s possession. 
(2) EXCEPTION TO COMPLY WITH UNITED NA-
TIONS
HEADQUARTERS
AGREEMENT.—Sanctions 
under paragraph (1)(B) shall not apply with respect 
to an alien if admitting or paroling the alien into the 
United States is necessary to permit the United 
States to comply with the Agreement regarding the 
Headquarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake 
Success June 26, 1947, and entered into force No-
vember 21, 1947, between the United Nations and 
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the United States, or other applicable international 
obligations. 
(c) PENALTIES.—Any person that violates, attempts 
to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of this 
section or any regulation, license, or order issued to carry 
out subsection (b) shall be subject to the penalties set 
forth in subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the Inter-
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 
1705) to the same extent as a person that commits an 
unlawful act described in subsection (a) of that section. 
(d) IMPLEMENTATION.—The President may exercise 
all authorities provided under sections 203 and 205 of the 
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out this section and shall 
issue such regulations, licenses, and orders as are nec-
essary to carry out this section. 
(e) EXCEPTION RELATING TO THE IMPORTATION OF 
GOODS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The authorities and require-
ments to impose sanctions authorized under this Act 
shall not include the authority or requirement to im-
pose sanctions on the importation of goods. 
(2) GOOD
DEFINED.—In this subsection, the 
term ‘‘good’’ means any article, natural or man- 
made substance, material, supply or manufactured 
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product, including inspection and test equipment, 
and excluding technical data. 
(f) WAIVER.—The President may annually waive the 
application of sanctions imposed on a foreign person pur-
suant to subsection (a) if the President— 
(1) determines that a waiver with respect to 
such foreign person is in the national interest of the 
United States; and 
(2) not later than the date on which such waiv-
er will take effect, submits to the following commit-
tees notice of and justification for such waiver: 
(A) The Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Appropriations, and the Com-
mittee on Financial Services of the House of 
Representatives. 
(B) The Committee on Foreign Relations, 
the Committee on Appropriations, and the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
Affairs of the Senate. 
(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
(1) ADMITTED; ALIEN.—The terms ‘‘admitted’’ 
and ‘‘alien’’ have the meanings given those terms in 
section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1001). 
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(2) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-
son’’ means a person that is not a United States 
person. 
(3) 
KNOWINGLY.—The 
term 
‘‘knowingly’’ 
means, with respect to conduct, a circumstance, or 
a result, means that a person has actual knowledge, 
or should have known, of the conduct, the cir-
cumstance, or the result. 
(4) 
UNITED
STATES
PERSON.—The 
term 
‘‘United States person’’ means— 
(A) a United States citizen, an alien law-
fully admitted for permanent residence to the 
United States, or any other individual subject 
to the jurisdiction of the United States; or 
(B) an entity organized under the laws of 
the United States or of any jurisdiction within 
the United States, including a foreign branch of 
such entity. 
TITLE III—GOVERNANCE OF THE 
BURMESE MINING AND GEM-
STONE SECTORS 
SEC. 301. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE MINING SECTOR OF 
BURMA. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
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(1) In 2015, the nongovernmental organization 
Global Witness estimated that the value of total pro-
duction 
of 
jade 
in 
Burma 
in 
2014 
was 
$31,000,000,000, almost 48 percent of the official 
gross domestic product of Burma. As much as 80 
percent of that jade sold is smuggled out of Burma. 
(2) Burma’s military and associated entities, in-
cluding companies owned or controlled by Myanmar 
Economic Corporation and Myanmar Economic 
Holding Limited, their affiliated companies, and 
companies owned or controlled by current and 
former senior military officers or their family mem-
bers, are linked to the mining sector, including the 
gemstone industry, and benefit financially from 
widespread illegal smuggling of jade and rubies from 
Burma. 
(3) 
Illegal 
trafficking 
in 
precious 
and 
semiprecious stones from Burma, including the trade 
in high-value jade and rubies, deprives the people of 
Burma and the civilian government of critical rev-
enue and instead benefits military-linked entities, 
non-state armed groups, and transnational organized 
criminal networks. 
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(4) In 2016, the Government of Burma began 
to take steps to reform aspects of the mining sector, 
including— 
(A) improving governance in the gemstone 
industry, 
by 
temporarily 
suspending 
the 
issuance or renewal of jade and gemstone min-
ing permits; 
(B) commissioning an environmental man-
agement plan for some mining areas; and 
(C) establishing the multi-stakeholder Jade 
and Gemstone Support Committee under the 
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environ-
mental Conservation to develop recommenda-
tions for a new industry-wide policy and limited 
gemstone 
payment 
disclosures 
under 
the 
Myanmar Extractives Industry Transparency 
Initiative. 
(5) In January 2019, the Government of 
Burma adopted a new Gemstone Law that does not 
adequately address corruption and tax avoidance, 
conflicts of interest, or the factors fueling conflict in 
Kachin State and other gemstone mining areas. 
(6) The lifting in October 2016 of United 
States sanctions on the importation of jade and 
jadeite and rubies from Burma allowed such 
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gemstones to legally enter the United States market, 
but some retailers have refrained from sourcing 
gemstones of Burmese origin due to governance and 
reputational concerns. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) notwithstanding Burma’s ‘‘Trafficking in 
Persons’’ ranking, the President should continue to 
provide assistance to Burma, pursuant to the waiver 
authority under section 110(d)(4) of the Trafficking 
Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 
7107(d)(4)), in order to re-engage with the Govern-
ment of Burma with respect to the mining sector 
and should make available technical, capacity-build-
ing and other assistance through the Department of 
State or the United States Agency for International 
Development to support the Government of Burma 
in efforts to reform the gemstone industry; and 
(2) companies that seek to import to the United 
States gemstones or minerals that may be of Bur-
mese origin or articles of jewelry containing such 
gemstones should— 
(A) obtain such materials exclusively from 
entities that satisfy the transparency criteria 
described in section section 302(b)(2) or from 
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third parties that can demonstrate that they 
sourced the materials from entities that meet 
such criteria; and 
(B) undertake robust due diligence proce-
dures in line with the ‘‘Due Diligence Guidance 
for Responsible Business Conduct’’ and ‘‘Due 
Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply 
Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and 
High-Risk Areas’’ promulgated by the Organi-
zation for Economic Cooperation and Develop-
ment. 
SEC. 302. GUIDANCE RELATING TO RESPONSIBILITY AND 
TRANSPARENCY IN THE MINING SECTOR OF 
BURMA. 
(a) LIST
OF PARTICIPATING WHITE-LIST ENTI-
TIES.—Not later than 120 days after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, and annually thereafter until the date 
described in subsection (e), the Secretary of State shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees, and 
publish on a publicly available website, a list of each entity 
described in subsection (b)(1) that— 
(1) participates in Burma’s mining sector; 
(2) publicly discloses beneficial ownership, as 
such term is defined for purposes of the Myanmar 
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