On August 11, 2020, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published in the Federal Register a general notice [CBP Dec. 20-15] that notifies the public that, in light of the President’s Executive Order 13936 on Hong Kong Normalization, issued on July 14, 2020, suspending the application of section 201(a) of the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992 to the marking statute, section 304 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1304), with respect…
In retaliation for the latest round of US sanctions against Russian entities in connection with activities related to Ukraine, on 19 July 2014, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it had placed 12 Americans on its sanctions list pursuant to Federal Law № 272-FZ. The list of names contains an Admiral and a Federal Judge who were involved in ending the hunger strike by prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. The other ten are identified as military…