Executive Order 13067: Blocking Sudanese Government Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Sudan

President: Bill Clinton

Blocked Sudanese government property and imposed broad trade, finance, transport and services restrictions in response to the government’s conduct.

Status: Partly revoked. Is Executive Order 13067 still in effect? Partly. Executive Order 13067 remains in force in part. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 13067 do?

EO 13067 declared a national emergency over the Sudanese government’s support for terrorism, regional destabilization and human-rights abuses. It blocked government property and broadly restricted trade and services. Later orders reshaped the program. Effective October 12, 2017, EOs 13761 and 13804 revoked sections 1 and 2, and OFAC removed the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations in 2018. The original national emergency was not terminated, while current Sudan and Darfur sanctions rest on later targeted authorities.

Administration position: The 1997 comprehensive embargo is no longer the rule; current transactions must be assessed under later Sudan, Darfur and other sanctions authorities.
SignedNovember 3, 1997
Original scopeBroad government blocking and trade restrictions
Sections 1–2 revokedOctober 12, 2017

Before and after

Before the order

Sudan was designated a state sponsor of terrorism, but the order added a comprehensive IEEPA blocking and trade regime.

After the order

OFAC implemented broad restrictions, later narrowed them, and removed the program’s comprehensive regulations after the 2017 revocation.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Treasury / OFACAdminister licenses and sanctions rulesCore 1997 restrictions ended
US personsObserve applicable prohibitionsUnder current authorities
President and agenciesMaintain or adjust the emergency frameworkUnder later orders

What happened next

EO 13067 declared the emergency and imposed sanctions.

EO 13412 revised the Sudan program.

Sections 1 and 2 were revoked.

OFAC removed 31 CFR part 538.

EO 14098 added a separate targeted Sudan authority.