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Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§7209 Requirements Relating to Certain Travel-related Transactions with Cuba

Title 22 › CHAPTER 79 — TRADE SANCTIONS REFORM AND EXPORT ENHANCEMENT › § 7209

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Treasury Secretary must write rules that allow travel-related transactions on a general license for travel to, from, or within Cuba when the trip is for marketing and selling agricultural and medical goods and matches the transactions listed in 31 CFR 515.560(c). No federal official may allow travel-related transactions for tourist activities to Cuba, whether by a general license or a specific, case-by-case license. "Tourist activities" means any Cuba travel not clearly allowed under the marketing/sale rule, paragraphs (1)–(12) of 31 CFR 515.560, or the other sections those paragraphs point to, as those rules were on June 1, 2000.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §7209

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(a)Authorization of travel relating to commercial sales of agricultural and medical goods
The Secretary of the Treasury shall promulgate regulations under which the travel-related transactions listed in paragraph (c) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, are authorized by general license for travel to, from, or within Cuba for the marketing and sale of agricultural and medical goods pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
(b)Prohibition on travel relating to tourist activities
(1)In general
Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, the Secretary of the Treasury, or any other Federal official, may not authorize the travel-related transactions listed in subsection (c) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, either by a general license or on a case-by-case basis by a specific license for travel to, from, or within Cuba for tourist activities.
(2)Definition
In this subsection, the term “tourist activities” means any activity with respect to travel to, from, or within Cuba that is not expressly authorized in subsection (a) of this section, in any of paragraphs (1) through (12) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, or in any section referred to in any of such paragraphs (1) through (12) (as such sections were in effect on June 1, 2000).

Legislative History

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Amendments

2009—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–8 amended subsec. (a) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The Secretary of the Treasury shall promulgate

Regulations

under which the travel-related transactions listed in subsection (c) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal

Regulations

, may be authorized on a case-by-case basis by a specific license for travel to, from, or within Cuba for the commercial export sale of agricultural commodities pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.”

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 7209

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110