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Executive Order Imposes Financial Sanctions on Transnational Organized Crime Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2011

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References

1 50 U.S.C. §§1701-1707. This legislation gives the president broad authority to regulate or prohibit economic transactions “to deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States, if the President declares a national emergency with respect to such threat.” Id., §1701.

2 U.S. Imposes Sanctions on 4 International Criminal Groups, N.Y. Times, July 26, 2011, at KG.

3 White House Press Release, Executive Order—Blocking Properly of Transnational Criminal Organizations (July 25, 2011), at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/25/executive-order-blocking-propertytransnational-criminal-organizations.