Presidential Determination No. 90-7
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 512 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 (P.L. 101-167), I hereby determine that, with respect to Iraq, application of the prohibition contained in that section to the Export-Import Bank or its agents is not in the national interest of the United States.
You are directed to report this Determination to the Congress and to have it published in the Federal Register.
GEORGE BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, January 17, 1990.
George Bush, Memorandum on Application of Export-Import Bank Restrictions in Connection with Iraq Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/323802