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[CITE: 18USC2332d]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                         CHAPTER 113B--TERRORISM
 
Sec. 2332d. Financial transactions

    (a) Offense.--Except as provided in regulations issued by the 
Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, 
whoever, being a United States person, knowing or having reasonable 
cause to know that a country is designated under section 6(j) of the 
Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2405) as a country 
supporting international terrorism, engages in a financial transaction 
with the government of that country, shall be fined under this title, 
imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both.
    (b) Definitions.--As used in this section--
        (1) the term ``financial transaction'' has the same meaning as 
    in section 1956(c)(4); and
        (2) the term ``United States person'' means any--
            (A) United States citizen or national;
            (B) permanent resident alien;
            (C) juridical person organized under the laws of the United 
        States; or
            (D) any person in the United States.

(Added Pub. L. 104-132, title III, Sec. 321(a), Apr. 24, 1996, 110 Stat. 
1254; amended Pub. L. 107-273, div. B, title IV, Sec. 4002(a)(5), Nov. 
2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1806.)

                          Codification

    Another section 2332d was renumbered section 2332e of this title.


                               Amendments

    2002--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107-273 inserted ``of 1979'' after 
``Export Administration Act''.


                             Effective Date

    Section 321(c) of Pub. L. 104-132 provided that: ``The amendments 
made by this section [enacting this section] shall become effective 120 
days after the date of enactment of this Act [Apr. 24, 1996].''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2516 of this title.