<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/why-did-airbus-wait-until-implementation-day-for-the-iran-air-deal/"></div>Why did Airbus, a European aircraft manufacturer, have to wait until the lifting of certain U.S. sanctions targeting Iran to supply Iran Air with new aircraft? Even with the lifting of such sanctions on Implementation Day, a variety of U.S. sanctions remain that impede the sale for Airbus. <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis
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<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/unblocking-license-applications-can-they-be-successful/"></div>What did financial institutions do before there was screening software? Interdiction software has now become a way of life in the financial industry, and it's difficult to imagine a time when it didn't exist. But even with the advancements in technology utilized by banks to detect transactions that may...<!-- 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/the-conundrum-of-contesting-a-kingpin-act-designation/"></div>his past Tuesday, OFAC designated two individuals and two entities pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act ("the Kingpin Act") with alleged ties to Los Urabeños, a drug trafficking organization in Colombia. Victor Alfonso Mosquera Perez and Alveiro Feo Alvarado were identified as...<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/will-boeing-and-iran-air-rekindle-their-romance/"></div>October 18, 2015 marked “Adoption Day” for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”), the day on which the P5+1 and Iran began making necessary arrangements, including legal and administrative preparations, for the implementation of their respective JCPOA commitments. During this process...<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --&
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/compliance-for-trade-brokers-under-the-itsr-when-is-an-ofac-license-required/"></div>The Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations ("ITSR") administered by the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") generally prohibit the export and reexport of U.S.-origin goods and services to Iran without a specific license. However, certain transactions are exempt from this broad-sweeping provision...<!-- 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/gil-travel-enforcement-action-teaches-lesson-about-compliance/"></div>On October 27, 2015, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued a web notice of its settlement with Gil Tours Travel, Inc., a Philadelphia-based travel company. The company was hit with violations under the Cuban Asset Control Regulations (“CACR”)...<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/ofac-issues-comprehensive-jcpoa-guidance-stating-that-nothing-has-changed/"></div>At the heart of the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s (“OFAC”) implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”) lies a seemingly irreconcilable tension. On the one hand, the entire purpose of the JCPOA is to relax the vast...<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/how-canada-enforces-u-s-sanctions-and-export-controls/"></div>While it’s true that Sanction Law focuses primarily on U.S. economic sanctions, on occasion other nations’ enforcement of sanctions and export controls piques our interest. Which brings us to an interesting case out of Canada<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!--
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/on-the-legal-irrelevance-of-iran-sanctions-act-renewal/"></div>While the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”) appears to have overcome the last major congressional hurdle to implementation, the latest quixotic attempt to tie sanctions relief to Iran’s payment of damages to plaintiffs in terrorism-related lawsuits notwithstanding, Congress has made it abundantly clear that legislative efforts vis-à-vis Iran will continue. <!-- 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/coming-soon-to-an-ieepa-prosecution-near-you-mandatory-minimums/"></div>Last week, in a rare moment of bipartisan agreement, a group of nine Democratic and Republican Senators unveiled a sweeping sentencing reform bill aimed at reducing mandatory minimums for a number of drug- and firearms-related crimes. In a much more common moment of bi-partisan cooperation...<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter