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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§9408 Report on Coordination of Sanctions Between the United States and the European Union

Title 22 › Chapter 101— COUNTERING IRAN’S DESTABILIZING ACTIVITIES › § 9408

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President must send a report to the relevant congressional committees within 180 days after August 2, 2017, and then every 180 days. The report must list cases where the United States put sanctions on a person for spreading weapons of mass destruction or their delivery systems to or from Iran, supporting international terrorism by Iran, or human rights abuses in Iran, but the European Union did not, and the opposite cases where the EU sanctioned someone but the U.S. did not. For each difference, the report must say why. The first report covers August 2, 2017 through the report date. Later reports cover the previous 180 days. The report must be unclassified but can include a classified annex.

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Title 22, §9408

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(a)Not later than 180 days after August 2, 2017, and every 180 days thereafter, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that includes the following:
(1)A description of each instance, during the period specified in subsection (b)—
(A)in which the United States has imposed sanctions with respect to a person for activity related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or delivery systems for such weapons to or by Iran, support for acts of international terrorism by Iran, or human rights abuses in Iran, but in which the European Union has not imposed corresponding sanctions; and
(B)in which the European Union has imposed sanctions with respect to a person for activity related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or delivery systems for such weapons to or by Iran, support for acts of international terrorism by Iran, or human rights abuses in Iran, but in which the United States has not imposed corresponding sanctions.
(2)An explanation for the reason for each discrepancy between sanctions imposed by the European Union and sanctions imposed by the United States described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1).
(b)The period specified in this subsection is—
(1)in the case of the first report submitted under subsection (a), the period beginning on August 2, 2017, and ending on the date the report is submitted; and
(2)in the case of a subsequent such report, the 180-day period preceding the submission of the report.
(c)The report required by subsection (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified annex.

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Executive Documents

Delegation of Functions For delegation of functions of President under this section to the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, see section 1(b)(v) of Memorandum of President of the United States, Oct. 11, 2017, 82 F.R. 50051, set out in a note under section 9403 of this title.

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22 U.S.C. § 9408

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60