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Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§6003 International Cooperation

Title 22 › CHAPTER 69 — CUBAN DEMOCRACY › § 6003

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President should push countries that trade with Cuba to limit their trade and credit ties with Cuba so those ties match the goals of this chapter. The President may punish any country that helps the Cuban government by stopping that country from getting U.S. foreign assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, blocking U.S. arms sales under the Arms Export Control Act, and denying any U.S. program debt forgiveness or reduction. "Assistance to Cuba" means help for the Cuban government on better-than-market terms (like grants, cheap loans, guarantees, insurance, export subsidies, or low tariffs) and includes debt-for-equity deals that give a country ownership stakes in Cuban property or investments. It does not include food gifts to NGOs or people in Cuba, or medicine and medical supplies allowed under section 6004(c). "Agency or instrumentality of the Government of Cuba" is defined like 28 U.S.C. 1603(b) but applied to Cuba. These rules and any sanctions end when the President makes and reports the determination required under section 6007(a).

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Title 22, §6003

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(a)Cuban trading partners
The President should encourage the governments of countries that conduct trade with Cuba to restrict their trade and credit relations with Cuba in a manner consistent with the purposes of this chapter.
(b)Sanctions against countries assisting Cuba
(1)Sanctions
The President may apply the following sanctions to any country that provides assistance to Cuba:
(A)The government of such country shall not be eligible for assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 [22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.] or assistance or sales under the Arms Export Control Act [22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.].
(B)Such country shall not be eligible, under any program, for forgiveness or reduction of debt owed to the United States Government.
(2)“Assistance to Cuba” defined
For purposes of paragraph (1), the term “assistance to Cuba”—
(A)means assistance to or for the benefit of the Government of Cuba that is provided by grant, concessional sale, guaranty, or insurance, or by any other means on terms more favorable than that generally available in the applicable market, whether in the form of a loan, lease, credit, or otherwise, and such term includes subsidies for exports to Cuba and favorable tariff treatment of articles that are the growth, product, or manufacture of Cuba;
(B)includes an exchange, reduction, or forgiveness of Cuban debt owed to a foreign country in return for a grant of an equity interest in a property, investment, or operation of the Government of Cuba (including the government of any political subdivision of Cuba, and any agency or instrumentality of the Government of Cuba) or of a Cuban national; and
(C)does not include—
(i)donations of food to nongovernmental organizations or individuals in Cuba, or
(ii)exports of medicines or medical supplies, instruments, or equipment that would be permitted under section 6004(c) of this title.
As used in this paragraph, the term “agency or instrumentality of the Government of Cuba” means an agency or instrumentality of a foreign state as defined in section 1603(b) of title 28, with each reference in such section to “a foreign state” deemed to be a reference to “Cuba”.
(3)Applicability of section
This section, and any sanctions imposed pursuant to this section, shall cease to apply at such time as the President makes and reports to the Congress a determination under section 6007(a) of this title.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Repeal of Section Pub. L. 104–114, title II, § 204(d)(3), Mar. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 810, provided that on date on which President submits determination under section 6063(c)(3) of this title that democratically elected government in Cuba is in power, this section is repealed.

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, referred to in subsec. (b)(1)(A), is Pub. L. 87–195, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 424, which is classified principally to chapter 32 (§ 2151 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 2151 of this title and Tables. The Arms Export Control Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(1)(A), is Pub. L. 90–629, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1320, which is classified principally to chapter 39 (§ 2751 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 2751 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

1996—Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 104–114, § 102(f), added subpar. (B), redesignated former subpar. (B) as (C), and inserted concluding provisions “As used in this paragraph, the term ‘agency or instrumentality of the Government of Cuba’ means an agency or instrumentality of a foreign state as defined in section 1603(b) of title 28, with each reference in such section to ‘a foreign state’ deemed to be a reference to ‘Cuba’.”

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 6003

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110