The Consequences Of Rising Inflation & Crude Oil Prices
China announced overnight that it will impose its own tariffs in retaliation for the newly announced U.S. tariffs. China has indicated that, effective February 10, 2025, it will impose a 15% tax on certain types of coal and...more
The Price Cap Coalition is an international partnership of the United States, the G7, the European Union, and Australia that was established in December 2022 to limit Russia’s ability to fund its war against Ukraine through...more
The United States manages more than three dozen separate economic and trade sanctions programs. Those programs target specified foreign governments along with thousands of named individuals, groups and entities in accordance...more
On June 23, 2023, the EU released its 11th package of sanctions on Russia. This package is designed to improve enforcement with new anti-circumvention rules, new trade restrictions, and new designations. The...more
On April 17, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an alert warning U.S. persons regarding the possible evasion of the price cap set on crude oil of Russian origin, particularly oil...more
This update addresses the full implementation of the price cap policy for crude oil and petroleum products of Russian origin by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). On Feb. 3, OFAC...more
This update includes the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control’s (OFAC) recent actions regarding the Russian seaborne oil price cap policy aimed at maintaining the supply of Russian oil to the...more
On 5 December 2022 the $60 per barrel price cap on Russian crude oil announced by the G-7 finance ministers in September 2022 came into effect in the United States, European Union and United Kingdom. The price cap is...more
On December 5, 2022, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced a $60 per barrel price cap on maritime transfers of Russian-origin crude oil. The final cap level is being implemented...more
Oil price cap - The oil price cap has been co-ordinated by the G7 in order to make EU, UK and US services (including (re)insurance) available to third country importers and exporters as long as the price paid for...more
As Russia’s war in Ukraine stretches into its tenth month, governments around the world continue to coordinate and respond with increasingly severe sanctions and export controls....more
- On February 18, 2020, OFAC designated Rosneft Trading, S.A. (Rosneft Trading), a subsidiary of Russia-based Open Joint-Stock Company Rosneft Oil Company (Rosneft Oil Company), and its president, Didier Casimiro, on the SDN...more
The repeal of the crude export ban, which Congress just passed and the president signed as part of the omnibus appropriations bill (read “budget”), may end up being one of those “watch out what you wished for” events. The ban...more
After weeks of intense negotiations and backroom tradeoffs, last Friday Congress passed, and President Obama signed into law, a 2,000 page omnibus bill to fund the federal government for fiscal year 2016. The biggest winner...more
On December 15, 2015, U.S. congressional leaders announced a year-end budget compromise that removes the ban on the export of crude oil from the United States. In exchange for this concession, the Democratic-led opposition to...more
Modification of the U.S. policy restricting exports of domestic crude oil has been at the forefront of energy policy discussion due to the country’s recent emergence as a leader in oil and natural gas production. ...more
On August 14, 2015, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) indicated that it would approve a number of export license applications permitting parties in the United States to swap crude oil...more
The ban on the export of domestic crude oil dates back to a time when members of Congress did not have computers and Richard Nixon was president. Much has changed in the past 40 years. Today, that antiquated law is severely...more
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AL), the chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has announced that she will introduce a bill to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting crude oil. The legislation will attract broad...more