May 31, 2021 By: Benoit Beaulieu, ACSS Reporter In response to U.S., U.K., Canada and E.U. sanctions against China, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) has, since 2020, announced sanctions of their own. Said sections are levied against...
April 23, 2021 By: Benoit Beaulieu, ACSS Reporter The ACSS held its inaugural European conference on global economic sanctions and export controls last month, discussing Brexit, the E.U., the maritime sector and sanctions screening. Between...
April 24, 2020 By: Natasha Bright, Content Writer, ACSS In order to gain insight in the real-world experience of those in the industry, the Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists (ACSS) has taken the time to ask sanctions professionals...
April 24, 2018 Just as the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has great influence over the implementation of U.S. sanctions policy, its cousin - the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) – plays...
March 22, 2017 By Anna Sayre, Legal Content Writer SanctionsAlert.com On March 7, three U.S. regulators – the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),...
February 3, 2017 By: Michelle Turner Roberts, Dan Fisher-Owens, Ben Flowe, Perry Bechky, Babak Hoghooghi, Ray Gold, John Ordway, and Jason McClurg* With a stroke of his pen on January 13, 2017, by Executive Order 13761, President Obama...
February 2, 2017 By: Anna Sayre, Legal Content Writer, SanctionsAlert.com On January 19, 2017, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amended the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to implement a new phase...
January 13, 2017 By: Anna Sayre, Legal Content Writer, SanctionsAlert.com A decade ago South Africa was inaugurated as the first African member state of the Wassenaar Arrangement (WA), an agreement that promotes transparency in transfers of...
Author: Julio A. Fernandez Date: March 14, 2016 After the announcement by President Obama in December 2014 of the dramatic change in US policy toward Cuba, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Commerce...
