Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to Haiti
Headline: Blocks Funds and Prohibits Certain Flights and Transactions With Haiti
What it does: Agencies must enforce fund blocks, flight and transaction prohibitions and suspend or end relevant licenses.
- Blocks funds of Haitian military leaders and their immediate families under U.S. control.
- Prohibits aircraft from taking off, landing, or overflying the U.S. if linked to Haiti.
- Requires U.S. persons and agencies to freeze assets and stop prohibited transactions.
Summary
This order blocks the money and financial resources of Haitian military officers, major participants in the 1991 coup and people working for the Haitian military, and their immediate families when those funds are in the United States or controlled by U.S. persons.
It also bans certain flights that come to or leave the United States for Haiti (except regularly scheduled commercial passenger flights) and forbids transactions that try to evade these prohibitions. The Treasury Secretary is authorized to issue rules and all federal agencies must enforce the order.
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