On October 11, 2024, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued a determination under Section 1(a)(i) of Executive Order 13902 dated January 10, 2020 (“EO 13902”) designating the petroleum and petrochemical sectors of the Iranian economy as subject to US secondary sanctions. This industry sector designation adds to secondary sanctions designations announced in January 2020 under EO 13902 on the Iranian construction, mining, manufacturing, and textile sectors of the Iranian economy as well as…
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) has issued an interim final rule to extend OFAC’s recordkeeping requirements for certain transactions from 5 to 10 years. This development mirrors the recent extension of the statute of limitations for civil and criminal violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”) and the Trading with the Enemy Act (“TWEA”) to 10 years. Civil enforcement actions brought by OFAC for violations of IEEPA or…
Baker McKenzie will be hosting a seminar on 8 October 2024 in Dubai as part of our EMEA Russia Sanctions Briefings. We will be joined for the seminar by representatives from our Global Sanctions Investigations Group, including from our US and London offices. The seminars will focus on the multijurisdictional sanctions challenges facing financial institutions and other companies in the Gulf, in relation to the US, UK, EU and UAE sanctions regimes, particularly against Russia.…
On August 15, 2024, the US Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) published the long-awaited final rule (“Final Rule”), effective September 16, 2024, expanding the definition of “activities that are not exports, reexports, retransfers, or temporary imports” pursuant to Section 120.54 of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”). Please see our previous blog here when DDTC issued a proposed rule (“Proposed Rule”) to make these changes. The Final Rule adds…