On August 9, 2024, the US, EU, UK and Canada released a joint statement announcing new sanctions against Belarus, referring to the fourth anniversary of fraudulent presidential elections in Belarus that resulted in Alexander Lukashenko remaining in power. These authorities cited Belarus’s support for Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and ongoing human rights abuses in Belarus as the motivations for the latest round of sanctions. Members of our global sanctions team in the US,…
The Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) is extending the comment period for the proposed regulations implementing Executive Order 13873, “Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain,” until January 10, 2020. Commerce is extending the deadline to give interested members of the public additional time to submit comments. All other information and instructions to commenters provided in the original document remain unchanged. See our previous blog post here.