On 27 April 2018, the EU published legislation imposing further restrictive measures on Myanmar/Burma, strengthening the EU’s arms embargo and targeting the Myanmar/Burma army and border guard police officials. These measures, which came into force today, are contained in Council Regulation 2018/647, and are a direct follow up to the Foreign Affairs Council conclusions of 26 February 2018 on the situation in Myanmar/Burma. Firstly, the measures adopt a legal framework for targeted restrictive measures against…
On April 15, 2018, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued an order activating a suspended denial order (the “Order”) concerning ZTE Corporation and ZTE Kangxun Telecommunications Ltd. (collectively, “ZTE” or the “Company”). In explaining the activation, BIS described repeated misleading or false statements made to the US Government both before and since a March 2017 settlement agreement concerning violations of the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) (“Settlement Agreement’). More information on the ZTE investigation and the Settlement Agreement can be found in our previous posts here and here.
On 26 February, the Council of the European Union (the “Council”) announced a number of new and anticipated sanctions measures targeting North Korea, Myanmar/Burma, Cambodia and the Maldives. North Korea The EU has extended its sanctions to fully transpose UN Security Council Resolution 2397 (2017), on which please see our previous blog post available here. The new EU measures include the following: a reduction in the total amount of refined petroleum products that may be…
On 22 December 2017, the UN Security Council (UNSC) unanimously voted to imposed new sanctions on North Korea following its intercontinental ballistic missile test in November. The UNSC adopted Resolution 2397 (2017), which seeks to limit North Korea’s access to refined petroleum products and crude oil, and its earnings from workers abroad. The measures involve the following: North Korea’s imports of refined petroleum have been capped to 500,000 barrels for 12 months starting on 1…