---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 4587"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "4587"
heading: "Penalties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/4587"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Defense Production"
  - "Subchapter IV — Prohibition and Notification on Investments Relating to Covered National Security Transactions"
---

# §4587. Penalties

- (a) **In general—** The regulations issued under section [4581](/usc/50/4581.md) or [4582](/usc/50/4582.md) of this title shall provide for the imposition of civil penalties described in [subsection (b)](#b).
- (b) **Penalties described—**
  - (1) **Unlawful acts—** It shall be unlawful for a [person](/usc/50/4589.md?p=9) to violate, attempt to violate, conspire to violate, or cause a violation of any order, regulation, notification requirement, or prohibition issued under this subchapter.
  - (2) **Civil penalty—** The [Secretary](/usc/50/4589.md?p=11) may impose civil penalties on any [person](/usc/50/4589.md?p=9) who commits an unlawful act described in [paragraph (1)](#b-1) in amounts equivalent to amounts provided for under section 206(b) of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ([50 U.S.C. 1705(b)](/usc/50/1705.md?p=b)) for violations under that Act.
  - (3) **Divestment—** The [Secretary](/usc/50/4589.md?p=11) may compel the divestment of a [covered national security transaction](/usc/50/4589.md?p=4-A) in a [prohibited technology](/usc/50/4589.md?p=10-A) determined to be in violation of [section 4581(a) of this title](/usc/50/4581.md?p=a) or regulations issued thereunder.
  - (4) **Relief—** The President may direct the Attorney General of the United States to seek appropriate relief, including divestment relief for violations of the prohibition set forth in subsection[^1] [4581(a)](/usc/50/4581.md?p=a) of this title, in the district courts of the United States, in order to implement and enforce this subchapter.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “section”.

## Source credit

(Sept. 8, 1950, ch. 932, title VIII, § 807, as added Pub. L. 119–60, div. H, title LXXXV, § 8521, Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1930.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), is title II of Pub. L. 95–223, Dec. 28, 1977, 91 Stat. 1626, which is classified generally to chapter 35 (§ 1701 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1701 of this title and Tables.