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Baker McKenzie’s Canadian international trade and customs team is publishing a series of articles reviewing 2024 trade and customs compliance developments and looking ahead to 2025’s burgeoning issues. This article focuses on Canada’s export controls regime. Before we dive into the export controls outlook, here is an overview of the current state of politics in Canada, which includes a discussion of the legislative powers that remain while Canadian Parliament is prorogued until March 24, 2025.…
On May 10, 2024, Canada announced that four individuals were added to the Special Economic Measures (Hamas Terrorist Attacks) Regulations (the “Regulations”), created earlier this year in response to the attacks by Hamas in Israel beginning on October 7, 2023. The amended Regulations entered into force on May 9, 2024. The newly-listed individuals are: Khaled Qaddoumi, associated with Hamas; and Ali Morshed Shirazi, Mostafa Mohammad Khani and Ali Ahmad Faizullahi, all members of the Islamic…
On April 25, 2024, the Government of Canada announced further amendments to the Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations (the “Regulations”). These amendments list an additional two individuals and two entities in Schedule 1 of the Regulations. On April 14, 2024, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iranian proxies launched drones and missiles into Israel, Iran’s first-ever direct attack on Israel. The newly listed individuals and entities are associated with this attack and include: These sanctions…