Foreign policy and sanctions

Executive Order 14033: Blocking Property and Suspending Entry Into the United States of Certain Persons Contributing to the Destabilizing Situation in the Western Balkans

President: Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Expanded an existing Western Balkans national emergency, authorizing asset blocking and entry restrictions for destabilization, corruption and obstruction of regional peace agreements.

Status: In effect as amended.

Is Executive Order 14033 still in effect? Yes. Active Western Balkans sanctions emergency, expanded and continued.

A shield encloses a stylized Balkan regional map above diplomatic documents, buildings and coins.
Western Balkans sanctions, illustrated symbolically; the map is not authoritative boundary data or a current designation list. EO Explained · site-generated editorial illustration · not documentary evidence.

What does Executive Order 14033 do?

Treasury and State could identify persons meeting the Western Balkans criteria; Treasury would administer designations and licenses.

Later primary evidence reviewed September 24, 2026: EO 14140 expressly amended this order. Official source. The cited steps do not establish every downstream effect.

Administration position: The order’s findings and policy rationale were the Biden administration’s positions. This guide distinguishes them from implementation records and judicial rulings.
SignedJune 8, 2021
Lead officialsTreasury/OFAC and State
Express timingImmediate; designations and licenses as determined

Before and after

Before the order

Earlier orders covered narrower threats to peace implementation in parts of the former Yugoslavia.

After the order

OFAC issued designations and licenses under the expanded authority. EO 14140 further expanded the program in January 2025, and the national emergency was continued in June 2026.

EO 14140 expressly amended this order.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Treasury and StateIdentify persons meeting sanctions criteriaAs determined
OFACAdminister blocking, licenses and list changesOngoing

What happened next

EO 14033 signed.

EO 14140 further expanded the Western Balkans authorities.

Later primary evidence reviewed: EO 14140 expressly amended this order.