Executive Order 13936

Executive Order 13936

The President’s Executive Order on Hong Kong Normalization
President Donald Trump signing the order at the Resolute desk, with Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin (left) and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (right)
Type	Executive order
Executive Order number	13936
Signed by	Donald Trump on July 14, 2020 (2020-07-14)
Federal Register details
Federal Register document number	2020-15646
Publication date	July 17, 2020 (2020-07-17)
Document citation	85 FR 43413
Summary
Suspends or eliminates different and preferential treatment for Hong Kong

Executive Order 13936, entitled "The President’s Executive Order on Hong Kong Normalization", is an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on July 14, 2020.^[1] On the same day Trump had signed into law Hong Kong Autonomy Act, one of the laws from which the order derives authority. The act and the executive order are the U.S. response to the imposition of a controversial national security law in Hong Kong by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China on June 30, 2020, which was described as "an unusual and extraordinary threat [...] to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States" in the preamble.

According to Trump, he said the executive order was to "hold China accountable for its aggressive actions against the people of Hong Kong", and Hong Kong would be treated the same as China.^[2] The order directs government agencies to eliminate preferential treatments given to Hong Kong as compared to mainland China.