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OFAC adds Venezuelan and Nicaraguan entities to the SDN list, amends and issues General Licenses

On 17 April 2019 the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it has added two new...

United States Department of State lists Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terror

The United States Department of State has listed the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)...

US extends Title III suspension of the LIBERTAD Act, with notable exceptions

On 4 March 2019 the U.S. Secretary of State announced an additional 30-day suspension of Title III of the 1996 Cuban Liberty and...

US DEA launches a new tool in its online reporting system ARCOS

On 26 February 2019 the United States’ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced that an upgraded feature of its Automated Reports...

U.S. issues a new executive order, general licenses and a designation against Venezuela

On 25 January 2019 U.S. President Trump signed an Executive Order entitled “Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency...

OFAC not processing License Applications during U.S. Government shutdown

The U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) will not be processing applications submitted through their...

Additional Venezuelan sanctions by OFAC

On 8 January 2019 the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned seven individuals, 23...

U.S. President signs act for new sanctions against Nicaragua

On 20 December 2018 U.S President Trump signed H.R. 1918, the ‘‘Nicaragua Human Rights and Anticorruption Act of 2018.’’ This Act issues...

Trump extends executive order regarding ‘Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption’

On 18 December 2018 U.S. President Trump announced that Executive Order 13818 (originally dated 20 December 2017) will be prolonged for...

Trump signs a new Nicaragua-related Executive Order and OFAC adds two individuals to the SDN list

U.S. President Trump signed a new Executive Order on 27 November 2018 entitled ‘Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the...

OFAC’s OCE issues new document about data delivery standards

New Open General Export Licence published and 26 OGELs updated

EFTA free trade agreement with Georgia

Antidumping Duty Orders on Carbon and Alloy Steel

Presidential Proclamation on Adjusting Imports of Aluminum and Steel

UK amended 4 military export licences

Amendment of UK Munition List [SI 2018/165]

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Economic Exclusion Act introduced in the US House of Representativ

New Amendment for UK Export Control List

Malaysian Government imposes Anti-Dumping Duties for stainless steel