---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 7209"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "7209"
heading: "Requirements relating to certain travel-related transactions with Cuba"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/7209"
units:
  - "Chapter 79 — Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement"
---

# §7209. Requirements relating to certain travel-related transactions with Cuba

- (a) **Authorization of travel relating to commercial sales of agricultural and medical goods—** The [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury shall promulgate regulations under which the travel-related transactions listed in paragraph (c) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, are authorized by general license for travel to, from, or within Cuba for the marketing and sale of agricultural and medical goods pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
- (b) **Prohibition on travel relating to tourist activities—**
  - (1) **In general—** Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury, or any other Federal official, may not authorize the travel-related transactions listed in subsection (c) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, either by a general license or on a case-by-case basis by a specific license for travel to, from, or within Cuba for tourist activities.
  - (2) **Definition—** In this subsection, the term “tourist activities” means any activity with respect to travel to, from, or within Cuba that is not expressly authorized in [subsection (a)](#a) of this section, in any of paragraphs (1) through (12) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, or in any section referred to in any of such paragraphs [(1)](#b-1) through (12) (as such sections were in effect on June 1, 2000).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–387, § 1(a) [title IX, § 910], Oct. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 1549, 1549A–71; Pub. L. 111–8, div. D, title VI, § 620, Mar. 11, 2009, 123 Stat. 677.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2009—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–8 amended subsec. (a) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The Secretary of the Treasury shall promulgate regulations under which the travel-related transactions listed in subsection (c) of section 515.560 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, may be authorized on a case-by-case basis by a specific license for travel to, from, or within Cuba for the commercial export sale of agricultural commodities pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.”