The US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued for public inspection a notice of proposed rulemaking that would restrict a Chinese commercial bank’s access to the US financial system based on a finding that the bank was involved in money laundering activities involving North Korea.

On 7 October 2016, President Obama issued an Executive Order terminating US sanctions targeting Myanmar.

This post provides you with a brief summary of the sanctions relief that the U.S. Government instituted on Implementation Day.

On September 21, 2015, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) and the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) introduced a second round of amendments (the “September Amendments”) to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (“CACR”) and the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) in a continuing…

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security announced amendments to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations and the Export Administration Regulations in a continuing effort to relax certain aspects of the U.S. embargo against Cuba.

On March 25, 2015, a reissued version of the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) regulations on “Assistance to Foreign Atomic Energy Activities,” 10 C.F.R. Part 810 (“Part 810” or “the DOE Regulations”), go into effect. The DOE Regulations control the provision outside the United States of technology and other assistance…