On May 19, the US Commerce Departmentâs Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) published an interim final rule effective on May 15, 2020 amending the Export Administration Regulations’ (âEARâ) General Prohibition Three (the “foreign-produced direct product rule”) and Entity List to impose new controls on the reexport, export from abroad, and transfer (in-country) of certain foreign-produced semiconductor-related items when such items are the direct product of certain designated US technology or software and are destined…
On May 12, 2020, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced the lifting of US sanctions on Nynas AB (“Nynas”) and the related revocation of General License No. 13E (“Authorizing Certain Activities Involving Nynas AB”) (“GL 13E”). We blogged about last month’s extension of GL 13E here. Nynas and its subsidiaries were previously subject to US sanctions because Nynas was indirectly owned and controlled by PetrĂłleos de Venezuela SA (“PdVSA”) and,…
On April 21, 2020, the US Treasury Departmentâs Office of Foreign Assets Control (âOFACâ) amended General License (âGLâ) 8E and re-issued it as General Licence No. 8F. GL 8F extends the validity period of certain maintenance activities involving PetrĂłleos de Venezuela S.A. (âPdVSAâ) until December 1, 2020, but also narrows the scope of the prior license and provides a new authorization for âwind-downâ transactions and activities. Our blog posts describing previous amendments to the general license…
On April 3, 2020, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) re-issued and extended General License No. 13E (“GL 13E”) to continue the validity period for transactions concerning Nynas AB and its subsidiaries (“Nynas”) that otherwise would be prohibited under Executive Order 13850 or Executive Order 13884 given Nynas’s 50% indirect ownership by PetrĂłleos de Venezuela S.A. (“PdVSA”). The authorization was extended through 12:01 am EST on May 14, 2020. In a…