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{{short description|United States federal law}}
{{Infobox U.S. legislation
| shorttitle = International Emergency Economic Powers Act
| othershorttitles = 
| longtitle = An Act with respect to the powers of the President in time of war or national emergency.
| colloquialacronym = IEEPA
| nickname = 
| enacted by = 95th
| effective date = December 28, 1977
| public law url = http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-91/pdf/STATUTE-91-Pg1625.pdf
| cite public law = 95-223
| cite statutes at large = {{usstat|91|1625}}
| acts amended = 
| acts repealed = 
| title amended = [[Title 50 of the United States Code|50 U.S.C.: War and National Defense]]
| sections created = {{Usc-title-chap|50|35}} § 1701 et seq.
| sections amended = 
| leghisturl = http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d095:HR07738:@@@R
| introducedin = House
| introducedbill = {{USBill|95|H.R.|7738}}
| introducedby = [[Jonathan Brewster Bingham]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]]–[[New York (state)|NY]])
| introduceddate = June 13, 1977
| committees = [[United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs|House Foreign Affairs]], [[United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs|Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs]]
| passedbody1 = House
| passeddate1 = July 12, 1977
| passedvote1 = passed
| passedbody2 = Senate
| passedas2 = <!-- used if the second body changes the name of the legislation -->
| passeddate2 = October 11, 1977
| passedvote2 = passed
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| passeddate3 = 
| passedvote3 = 
| agreedbody3 = House
| agreeddate3 = November 30, 1977
| agreedvote3 = agreed
| agreedbody4 = Senate
| agreeddate4 = December 7, 1977
| agreedvote4 = agreed
| passedbody4 = 
| passeddate4 = 
| passedvote4 = 
| signedpresident = [[Jimmy Carter]]
| signeddate = December 28, 1977
| amendments = 
| SCOTUS cases = ''[[Dames & Moore v. Regan]]'', {{ussc|453|654|1981}}
}}

The '''International Emergency Economic Powers Act''' ('''IEEPA'''), Title II of {{USStatute|95|223|91|1626|1977|10|28}}, is a [[United States federal law]] authorizing the [[President of the United States|president]] to regulate international commerce after declaring a [[national emergency]] in response to any unusual and extraordinary threat to the [[United States]] which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Casey |first1=Christopher A. |display-authors=et al. |title=The International Emergency Economic Powers Act: Origins, Evolution, and Use |date=March 20, 2019 |publisher=Congressional Research Service |location=Washington, DC |url=https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R45618.pdf |access-date=29 March 2019}}</ref>  The act was signed by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Jimmy Carter]] on December 28, 1977.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=7071 |title=Jimmy Carter: "Presidential War Powers Bill Statement on Signing H.R. 7738 Into Law.," December 28, 1977 |author1=Peters, Gerhard |author2=Woolley, John T |work=The American Presidency Project |publisher=University of California – Santa Barbara |access-date=May 31, 2015 |archive-date=August 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821121121/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=7071 |url-status=dead }}</ref>