22 U.S.C. § 6003 — International cooperation

(a) Cuban trading partners. The President should encourage governments that trade with Cuba to restrict their trade and credit relationships with Cuba consistently with this chapter’s purposes.
(b) Sanctions against countries assisting Cuba. (1) The President may impose these sanctions on a country providing assistance to Cuba: (A) its government cannot receive assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or assistance or sales under the Arms Export Control Act; and (B) the country cannot receive, under any program, forgiveness or reduction of debt owed to the United States Government. (2) “Assistance to Cuba” means (A) assistance to or for Cuba’s Government provided by grant, concessional sale, guaranty, insurance, or another method on terms more favorable than generally available in the applicable market, whether as a loan, lease, credit, or otherwise. It includes export subsidies to Cuba and favorable tariff treatment for Cuban-grown, Cuban-produced, or Cuban-manufactured articles; (B) exchanging, reducing, or forgiving Cuban debt owed to a foreign country in return for an equity interest in property, an investment, or an operation of Cuba’s Government, including a Cuban political subdivision or government agency or instrumentality, or of a Cuban national; and (C) not (i) donations of food to nongovernmental organizations or individuals in Cuba, or (ii) exports of medicines or medical supplies, instruments, or equipment permitted under section 6004(c). In this paragraph, “agency or instrumentality of the Government of Cuba” means an agency or instrumentality of a foreign state as defined in title 28, section 1603(b), with every reference there to “a foreign state” treated as a reference to “Cuba.” (3) This section and sanctions imposed under it stop applying when the President makes and reports to Congress the determination under section 6007(a).