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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§6009 Enforcement

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 69— - CUBAN DEMOCRACY › § 6009

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Treasury must enforce these rules. They will use powers from the Trading With the Enemy Act to do so. The Secretary must make sure activities allowed under section 6004 are used only for the chapter’s purposes and not to let the Cuban Government build up large amounts of U.S. dollars or let anyone earn excessive profits. Money can be provided to the Treasury as needed to carry out the chapter. The penalties in section 16 of the Trading With the Enemy Act apply to violations here in the same way. The Treasury must keep an Office of Foreign Assets Control branch in Miami to help with enforcement.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §6009

Foreign Relations and Intercourse — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The authority to enforce this chapter shall be carried out by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury shall exercise the authorities of the Trading With the Enemy Act [50 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.] in enforcing this chapter. In carrying out this subsection, the Secretary of the Treasury shall take the necessary steps to ensure that activities permitted under section 6004 of this title are carried out for the purposes set forth in this chapter and not for purposes of the accumulation by the Cuban Government of excessive amounts of United States currency or the accumulation of excessive profits by any person or entity.
(b)There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Treasury such sums as may be necessary to carry out this chapter.
(c)
(d)The penalties set forth in section 16 of the Trading With the Enemy Act [50 U.S.C. 4315] shall apply to violations of this chapter to the same extent as such penalties apply to violations under that Act [50 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.].
(e)The Department of the Treasury shall establish and maintain a branch of the Office of Foreign Assets Control in Miami, Florida, in order to strengthen the enforcement of this chapter.

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The Trading With the Enemy Act, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (d), is act Oct. 6, 1917, ch. 106, 40 Stat. 411, which is classified to chapter 53 (§ 4301 et seq.) of Title 50, War and National Defense. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Codification Section is comprised of section 1710 of Pub. L. 102–484. Subsec. (c) of section 1710 of Pub. L. 102–484 amended section 4315 of Title 50, War and National Defense.

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22 U.S.C. § 6009

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73