<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/upon-further-review-general-license-for-personal-communications-software/"></div>On Tuesday, I wrote about the general license issued by the United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) which lifted restrictions on the exportation of internet based personal communications software. I also pontificated at some length about the conflict created in requiring the software or services to be publicly available […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_
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<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/ofac-general-license-for-internet-based-personal-communications-services/"></div>Yesterday, the United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued the long awaited Personal Communications Services General License, which will allow for companies such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN to provide internet based communication technologies (i.e., Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, etc.) to Iran, Cuba, and Sudan. This general […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/are-you-on-the-sdn-list-you-can-have-your-name-removed/"></div>The United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) maintains a list of persons who they believe are engaged in activity detrimental to U.S. national security interests. This list is known as the Specially Designated National (SDN) List. These persons can be either individuals or corporate entities and the evidence in support of […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/treasury-to-announce-general-license-for-the-exportation-of-certain-banned-internet-technology/"></div>The New York Times is reporting that today, March 8, 2010, the United States Department of the Treasury will announce the issuance of a general license to export certain internet technologies, otherwise prohibited by U.S. economic sanctions, to the countries of Iran, Cuba, and Sudan. The technologies to be allowed will be for free personal […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/ofac-issues-terrorism-assets-report/"></div>The Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) earlier this week issued its Calendar Year 2009 Eighteenth Annual Report to the Congress on Assets in the United States of Terrorist Countries and International Terrorism Program Designess (Terrorism Assets Report). It’s a 34 page report and rather than drone on about its findings, […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/major-changes-on-the-horizon-for-iranian-sanctions/"></div>This blog is normally devoted strictly to issues surrounding the sanctions programs administered and enforced by the United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). However, there have been a number of developments over the past few weeks which have occured outside of OFAC, but that might dramatically impact one of the sanctions […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/is-kingpin-status-losing-its-exclusivity-more-kingpin-act-designees-added-to-ofac-sdn-list/"></div>By now you shouldn’t be surprised to hear that the U.S. government has become increasingly more aggressive in its use of economic sanctions to fight alleged drug traffickers around the world. For the last year I have written on the increasing number of designations under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) and how […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/ofac-bars-sale-of-golf-club-because-of-individual-on-sdn-list/"></div>You may or may not know, but the United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) administers a sanctions program against those persons undermining democratic processes in Zimbabwe. While this sanctions program has been in effect since the handing down of an Executive Order calling for sanctions against such individuals in 2003, […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/ofac-issues-kingpin-act-designations-places-individuals-and-entities-on-the-sdn-list/"></div>The United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated seven individuals and one entity under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act). These individuals are: Nicandro Barrera Medrano, Servando Gomez Martinez, Dionico Loya Plancarte, Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, Enrique Plancarte Solis, and Jose Arnoldo […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/ofac-and-the-haystack/"></div>I read and commented on an interesting Op-Ed by Richard Cohen of the New York Times today. The Op-Ed discussed how the United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), has still not released any guidance on whether or not they will allow for a computer software program known as Haystack […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_