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title: "U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Alrosa – World’s Largest Diamond Producer, Extends Sanctions on United Shipbuilding Corporation"
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# U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Alrosa – World’s Largest Diamond Producer, Extends Sanctions on United Shipbuilding Corporation

 April 8, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday, the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) [added](https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/recent-actions) Public Joint Stock Company Alrosa (Alrosa) to the List of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN List), subjecting the company and its majority-owned subsidiaries to full U.S. blocking sanctions. According to OFAC, Alrosa is the world’s largest diamond mining company and is responsible for 90 percent of Russia’s diamond mining capacity.

The move effectively cuts off Alrosa from U.S. commerce and requires U.S. persons holding property in which Alrosa has an interest to formally ​“block” or freeze that property and report it to OFAC. OFAC issued a temporary [general license](https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/russia_gl24.pdf) allowing U.S. persons to engage in all transactions ordinarily incident and necessary to the wind down of transactions involving Alrosa and its owned entities until 12:01 am May 7, 2022. OFAC also updated three existing general licenses authorizing U.S. persons to engage in certain limited transactions involving Alrosa [debt and equity](https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/russia_gl9c.pdf), Alrosa [derivative contracts](https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/russia_gl10c.pdf), and the wind down of [Alrosa USA, Inc](https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/russia_gl21a.pdf).

Absent authorization under a general license or a specific license issued by OFAC, any transactions with Alrosa that have a direct or indirect nexus with the United States or U.S. persons risk violating the sanctions and significant transactions by non-U.S. companies involving Alrosa could trigger secondary sanctions penalties. U.S. and non-U.S. companies that deal in Russian-origin diamonds need to carefully review these new sanctions.

As part of yesterday’s action, the United States also [expanded](https://www.state.gov/additional-state-department-designations-targeting-russian-state-owned-defense-shipbuilding-enterprise/) existing sanctions on United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), a major Russian shipbuilder.

 

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