Trade and Manufacturing Monitor
New Sanctions Placed on Trade with Cuba
On Thursday November 9th, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) published new regulations in the Federal Register executing June’s National Security Presidential Memorandum (“NSPM”) regarding U.S. sanctions…
Secondary Sanctions Targeting Russia’s Defense and Intelligence Sectors Move Closer to Implementation
Last Friday the State Department belatedly released a list of 39 Russian entities that operate as part of Russia’s defense and intelligence sectors (the full list is below). Congress required the Trump Administration…
U.S. Blacklists the President of Venezuela as a Specially Designated National (SDN)
Today the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took the unusual step of blacklisting the leader of a foreign country as a Specially Designated National (SDN). OFAC added Nicolas Maduro, the President of…
Congress Takes The Lead In Broad New Sanctions Against Russia
On June 15, 2017, the Senate overwhelmingly – by a vote of 98-2 – approved broad new sanctions against Russia in response to that country’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election and its ongoing aggression in Syria and…