Presidential Documents
Executive Order 14038 of August 9, 2021
Blocking Property of Additional Persons Contributing to the Situation in Belarus
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 Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, hereby expand the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13405 of June 16, 2006 (Blocking Property of Certain Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Belarus), finding that the Belarusian regime’s harmful activities and long-standing abuses aimed at suppressing democracy and the exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Belarus—including illicit and oppressive activities stemming from the August 9, 2020, fraudulent Belarusian presidential election and its aftermath, such as the elimination of political opposition and civil society organizations and the regime’s disruption and endangering of international civil air travel— constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.
Accordingly, I hereby order:
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control of any United States person, of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State: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 be or have been a leader, official, senior executive officer, or member of the board of directors of:
- (A) an entity that has, or whose members have, engaged in any of the activities described in subsections (v)(A)–(E) of this section or section 1(a)(ii)(A)–(C) of Executive Order 13405; or
- (B) an entity whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order or Executive Order 13405;
- (ii) to be a political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality of the Government of Belarus;
- (iii) to be or have been a leader or official of the Government of Belarus;
- (iv) to operate or have operated in the defense and related materiel sector, security sector, energy sector, potassium chloride (potash) sector, tobacco products sector, construction sector, or transportation sector of the economy of Belarus, or any other sector of the Belarus economy as may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State;
- (v) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in, any of the following:
- (A) actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, or territorial integrity of Belarus;
