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On October 31, 2024, the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued scenario-based guidance specific to the maritime shipping industry....more
On January 18, 2024, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the imposition of sanctions against a United Arab Emirates-based shipping company, Hennesea Holdings Limited (“Hennesea”)...more
Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 7 (April 2020) The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has stayed busy during the coronavirus outbreak. The office made several new additions...more
• Actions underscore long arm of U.S. sanctions jurisdiction • Voluntary disclosures and cooperation can lead to significant penalty reductions • Facilitation of a violation is treated the same as a direct violation ...more
Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 4 (February 20, 2020) - The United States lifted sanctions[1] on a subsidiary of COSCO Shipping Corporation Ltd., the Chinese shipping giant. Last September, the U.S. Department of...more
On January 31, 2020, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Department of the Treasury removed sanctions on COSCO Shipping Tanker (Dalian). The delisting may have resulted from US-Chinese...more
OFAC had a big year in 2019 and 2020 looks like a continuation. In the last week, OFAC issued two enforcement actions — Eagle Shipping and Park Strategies....more
On November 5, 2018, applicable wind-down periods for certain transactions with Iran ended and the second and final set of U.S. secondary sanctions that had been lifted pursuant to the Iran nuclear deal – the Joint...more
On August 6, 2018, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 13846 to reimpose certain nuclear-related sanctions against Iran that had previously been suspended in January 2016 in connection with the United States’...more
The United States has begun re-imposing nuclear-related sanctions with respect to Iran in connection with the expiration of the 90-day wind-down period announced alongside the United States' 8 May 2018 withdrawal from the...more
On Friday, February 23, 2018, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) imposed blocking sanctions against one individual, twenty-seven entities and twenty-eight vessels known to have previously...more
The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued new sanctions targeting the shipping industry for dealings involving North Korea. The sanctions include the designation of 56 companies and vessels involved in...more
What does decertification mean? For the time being, decertification is a solely U.S. issue. Under the Iran nuclear agreement (known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA), Iran agreed to limits on its nuclear...more
The United States and European Union took preparatory steps on 18 October 2015 to begin fulfilling their commitments to suspend certain sanctions against Iran pursuant to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”)...more
On July 14, 2015, after two years of sometimes intense negotiations, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, and China (known as the “P5+1” countries), along with the European Union, signed a Joint...more
On July 14, 2015, negotiators from Iran, the EU, and the P5+1 countries —China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany—announced that they had reached a consensus on the final text of the Joint...more
Editor’s note: This article was updated on July 23, 2015, to Editor’s note: This article was updated on July 23, 2015, to reflect certain additional information in U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231. On July 14, 2015,...more
On July 14, 2015, the “P5+1” nations (the United States, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United Kingdom), together with the European Union and the Islamic Republic of Iran (“Iran”), reached a Joint Comprehensive Plan...more
On July 14, 2015, the P5+1 nations (United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany) and Iran announced that they had agreed upon a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) regarding Iran’s nuclear program....more
As the new year brings in a new term for the Obama Administration, the pace of Iran sanctions shows no sign of slowing. As we reported in October and November, Washington’s commitment to denying Iran the ability to advance...more