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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 79 — Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement

§ 7209. Requirements relating to certain travel-related transactions with Cuba

Statutory text

(a)

Authorization of travel relating to commercial sales of agricultural and medical goods

The Secretary of the Treasury shall promulgate regulations under which the travel-related transactions listed in paragraph (c) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, are authorized by general license for travel to, from, or within Cuba for the marketing and sale of agricultural and medical goods pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

(b)

Prohibition on travel relating to tourist activities

(1)

In general

Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, the Secretary of the Treasury, or any other Federal official, may not authorize the travel-related transactions listed in subsection (c) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, either by a general license or on a case-by-case basis by a specific license for travel to, from, or within Cuba for tourist activities.

(2)

Definition

In this subsection, the term “tourist activities” means any activity with respect to travel to, from, or within Cuba that is not expressly authorized in subsection (a) of this section, in any of paragraphs (1) through (12) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, or in any section referred to in any of such paragraphs (1) through (12) (as such sections were in effect on ).

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 106–387 § 1(a)(tIX)(s910) · 114 Stat. 1549

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 7209

    Pub. L. 106–387, § 1(a) [title IX, § 910], Oct. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 1549, 1549A–71

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 106–387, § 1(a) [title IX, § 910], Oct. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 1549, 1549A–71

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) The provisions of H.R. 5426 of the 106th Congress, as introduced on October 6, 2000, are hereby enacted into law.

  2. Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2009

    Pub. L. 111–8 div. D title VI § 620 · 123 Stat. 524

    Amended · 22 U.S.C. § 7209(a)

    Pub. L. 111–8 amended subsec. (a) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The Secretary of the Treasury shall promulgate regulations under which the travel-related transactions listed in subsection (c) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, may be authorized on a case-by-case basis by a specific license for travel to, from, or within Cuba for the commercial export sale of agricultural commodities pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–8 amended subsec. (a) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The Secretary of the Treasury shall promulgate regulations under which the travel-related transactions listed in subsection (c) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, may be authorized on a case-by-case basis by a specific license for travel to, from, or within Cuba for the commercial export sale of agricultural commodities pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.”

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 620. Section 910(a) of the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7209(a)) is amended to read as follows: “(a) Authorization of Travel Relating to Commercial Sales of Agricultural and Medical Goods.— The Secretary Regulations. Cuba. of the Treasury shall promulgate regulations under which the travel-related transactions listed in paragraph (c) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, are authorized by general license for travel to, from, or within Cuba for the marketing and sale of agricultural and medical goods pursuant to the provisions of this title.” .

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2009—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–8 amended subsec. (a) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The Secretary of the Treasury shall promulgate regulations under which the travel-related transactions listed in subsection (c) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, may be authorized on a case-by-case basis by a specific license for travel to, from, or within Cuba for the commercial export sale of agricultural commodities pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.”

Credits

2000–2009 · 2 acts
  1. 2000Pub. L. 106–387, § 1(a) [title IX, § 910], , 114 Stat. 1549, 1549A–71
  2. 2009Pub. L. 111–8, div. D, title VI, § 620, , 123 Stat. 677.
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(Pub. L. 106–387, § 1(a) [title IX, § 910], , 114 Stat. 1549, 1549A–71; Pub. L. 111–8, div. D, title VI, § 620, , 123 Stat. 677.)

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