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Executive Power

How to Reform IEEPA

Peter E. Harrell   Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 11:49 AM

Over the weekend, President Trump cited a 1977 statute, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), as providing the legal authority he would need to carry through on his “order” that American companies “immediately start looking for an alternative to China.” IEEPA, which serves as the legal basis for many of America’s economic sanctions programs, almost certainly gives Trump the legal power he claims.

North Korea

Why Is the US More Likely to Sanction Chinese Companies for Supporting Iran than for Supporting North Korea?

Julian Ku   Mon, May 22, 2017, 3:36 PM

Lost amid the fallout of President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey last week was the U.S. Treasury Department’s announcement of new sanctions on individuals and companies found to be supporting Iran’s missile program. Four of the seven new sanctions targets are Chinese. This matters because although this is the second time since President Trump has taken office that the U.S.

Sanctions

Could President Trump Use the Treasury Department to Go After the Muslim Brotherhood?

Ed Stein   Wed, Feb 8, 2017, 1:26 PM

The other day, Benjamin Wittes and Will McCants questioned whether the Trump administration could lawfully designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (“FTO”). In the days since they wrote that post, there has been some talk that the administration may go a different direction: Treasury Department targeted financial sanctions.

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