Presidential Documents
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Friday, November 2, 2018
Title 3—
The President
Executive Order 13850 of November 1, 2018
Blocking Property of Additional Persons Contributing to the
Situation in 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 Emer-
gencies 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)) (INA), the Venezuela Defense
of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–278),
as amended (the Venezuelan Defense of Human Rights Act), 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, and relied upon for additional
steps taken in Executive Order 13808 of August 24, 2017, Executive Order
13827 of March 19, 2018, and Executive Order 13835 of May 21, 2018,
particularly in light of actions by the Maduro regime and associated persons
to plunder Venezuela’s wealth for their own corrupt purposes, degrade Ven-
ezuela’s infrastructure and natural environment through economic mis-
management and confiscatory mining and industrial practices, and catalyze
a regional migration crisis by neglecting the basic needs of the Venezuelan
people, hereby order as follows:
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withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary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 operate in the gold sector of the Venezuelan economy or in any
other sector of the Venezuelan economy as may be determined by the
Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State;
(ii) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly
engaged in, any transaction or series of transactions involving deceptive
practices or corruption and the Government of Venezuela or projects or
programs administered by the Government of Venezuela, or to be an
immediate adult family member of such a person;
(iii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material,
or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of,
any activity or transaction described in subsection (a)(ii) of this section,
or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursu-
ant to this order; or
(iv) 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.
(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) 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
date of this order.
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Sec. 2
. 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. 3
. I hereby determine that the making of donations of the type 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 section 1 of this order would seriously impair
my ability to deal with the national emergency declared in Executive Order
13692, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by section 1 of
this order.
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 this order; and
(b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services
from any such person.
Sec. 5
. (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 prohibi-
tions 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. 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,
lawful permanent resident, 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;
(d) the term ‘‘Government of Venezuela’’ means the Government of Ven-
ezuela, any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof, includ-
ing the Central Bank of Venezuela, and any person owned or controlled
by, or acting for or on behalf of, the Government of Venezuela.
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 or to the Govern-
ment of Venezuela of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would
render those measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these meas-
ures to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in Execu-
tive 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
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
. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to take such actions,
including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all
powers granted to the President by IEEPA, the INA, and section 5 of the
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