---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6033"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6033"
heading: "Prohibition against indirect financing of Cuba"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6033"
units:
  - "Chapter 69A — Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (libertad)"
  - "Subchapter I — Strengthening International Sanctions Against the Castro Government"
---

# §6033. Prohibition against indirect financing of Cuba

- (a) **Prohibition—** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no loan, credit, or other financing may be extended [knowingly](/usc/22/6023.md?p=9) by a [United States national](/usc/22/6023.md?p=15), a permanent resident alien, or a United States agency to any [person](/usc/22/6023.md?p=11) for the purpose of financing transactions involving any [confiscated](/usc/22/6023.md?p=4) [property](/usc/22/6023.md?p=12-A) the claim to which is owned by a [United States national](/usc/22/6023.md?p=15) as of March 12, 1996, except for financing by the [United States national](/usc/22/6023.md?p=15) owning such claim for a transaction permitted under United States law.
- (b) **Suspension and termination of prohibition—**
  - (1) **Suspension—** The President is authorized to suspend the prohibition contained in [subsection (a)](#a) upon a determination made under [section 6063(c)(1) of this title](/usc/22/6063.md?p=c-1) that a [transition government in Cuba](/usc/22/6023.md?p=14) is in power.
  - (2) **Termination—** The prohibition contained in [subsection (a)](#a) shall cease to apply on the date on which the [economic embargo of Cuba](/usc/22/6023.md?p=7) terminates as provided in [section 6064 of this title](/usc/22/6064.md).
- (c) **Penalties—** Violations of [subsection (a)](#a) shall be punishable by such civil penalties as are applicable to violations of the Cuban Assets Control Regulations set forth in part 515 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations.
- (d) **Definitions—** As used in this section—
  - (1) the term “permanent resident alien” means an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence into the United States; and
  - (2) the term “United States agency” has the meaning given the term “agency” in [section 551(1) of title 5](/usc/5/551.md?p=1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–114, title I, § 103, Mar. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 794.)