Erich Ferrari December 18, 2017 Crypto-Craze: Will Sanctions Evaders Turn to Cryptocurrencies to Beat OFAC? If you don’t watch the news, go on the internet, or have friends, then you probably haven’t heard of cryptocurrencies,…
Erich Ferrari August 28, 2017 New Venezuela Sanctions–Sectoral Sanctions Without the Sectors? Perhaps lost amidst the weekend’s news of Hurricane Harvey, Seb Gorka resigning, and Joe Arpaio being pardoned, was the announcement…
Erich Ferrari August 1, 2016 PIJIC Blocked, But Not Identified As subscribers to the paid portion of SanctionLaw already know, we’ve obtained a lot of information pursuant to Freedom of…
Erich Ferrari July 7, 2016 Better do Your Due Diligence on Doing Due Diligence Ever since the Joint Plan of Action–the framework to what eventually would become the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action–was signed…
Erich Ferrari January 13, 2016 Shipping to Afghanistan? How is your OFAC Compliance Program Looking? Over the past year or so, we've seen the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control…
Erich Ferrari November 29, 2015 Fallout From New OFAC SDN Designation May Uncover Details on Syria-ISIS Oil Trade Theory Last week, the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") designated four individuals and six…
Margaret Ververis November 5, 2015 Compliance for Trade Brokers under the ITSR: When is an OFAC License Required? The Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations ("ITSR") administered by the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets…
Erich Ferrari October 27, 2015 Websites for Marketing of Dietary Supplements to Iran Exempt Under the Information or Informational Materials Exemption As readers of this blog may know, dietary supplements are generally authorized for export to Iran, pursuant to the general…
Erich Ferrari September 14, 2015 Head Scratcher of the Week: S.Res.251 Last Thursday, Rep. Johnson (R-Wis) introduced a Senate resolution concerning the validity of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ("JCPOA").…
Erich Ferrari May 27, 2015 It’s 2015. Do You Know Where Your Understanding of Russia Sectoral Sanctions Is At? Last spring, when the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced that the President…