Sec. 205. Presidential actions
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Except as provided in subsection (c), the Presidential actions referred to in this subsection are the following: A private demarche. An official public demarche. A public condemnation. A public condemnation within one or more multilateral fora. The delay or cancellation of one or more scientific exchanges. The delay or cancellation of one or more cultural exchanges. The denial of one or more working, official, or state visits. The delay or cancellation of one or more working, official, or state visits.
A formal request to the foreign country concerned to extradite an individual who is engaged in abduction and who has been formally accused of, charged with, or convicted of an extraditable offense. The withdrawal, limitation, or suspension of United States development assistance in accordance with section 116 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2151n ). The withdrawal, limitation, or suspension of United States security assistance in accordance with section 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2304 ).
The withdrawal, limitation, or suspension of assistance to the central government of a country pursuant to chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2346 et seq. ; relating to the Economic Support Fund). Ordering the heads of the appropriate United States agencies not to issue any (or a specified number of) specific licenses, and not to grant any other specific authority (or a specified number of authorities), to export any goods or technology to such government or to the agency or instrumentality of such government determined by the President to be responsible for such unresolved case or pattern of noncooperation, as applicable, under— the Export Administration Act of 1979 (as continued in effect under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act); the Arms Export Control Act; the Atomic Energy Act of 1954; or any other statute that requires the prior review and approval of the United States Government as a condition for the export or re-export of goods or services.
Except as provided in subsection (c), the President may substitute any other action authorized by law for any action described in subsection
(a)if such action is commensurate in effect to the action substituted and if such action would further the purposes of this Act as specified in section 2(c). The President shall seek to take all appropriate and feasible actions authorized by law to resolve the unresolved case or to obtain the cessation of such pattern of noncooperation, as applicable. If commensurate action is taken under this subsection, the President shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on such action, together with an explanation for taking such action. Any action taken pursuant to subsection
(a)or
(b)may not prohibit or restrict the provision of medicine, medical equipment or supplies, food, or other life-saving humanitarian assistance. The President shall not be required to apply or maintain any action under section 205— in the case of procurement of defense articles or defense services— under existing contracts or subcontracts, including the exercise of options for production quantities, to satisfy requirements essential to the national security of the United States; if the President determines in writing and transmits to the appropriate congressional committees a report that the government or the agency or instrumentality of such government to which such action would otherwise be applied is a sole source supplier of such defense articles or services, that such defense articles or services are essential, and that alternative sources are not readily or reasonably available; or if the President determines in writing and transmits to the appropriate congressional committees a report that such defense articles or services are essential to the national security of the United States under defense co-production agreements; or to products or services provided under contracts entered into before the date on which the President publishes in the Federal Register notice of such action in accordance with section 208.
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