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OFAC Issues FAQ on Banned Investment Transactions With Chinese Companies

The Office of Foreign Assets Control on Jan. 6 issued a frequently asked question to provide guidance on President Donald Trump’s November executive order to ban U.S. investment in Chinese military companies (see 2011130026). OFAC said market intermediaries and others…

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may “engage in ancillary or intermediary activities that are necessary to effect divestiture during the relevant wind-down periods” with publicly traded securities of Chinese military companies. The agency clarified that transactions by U.S. people and investors involving investment funds “seeking to divest during the relevant wind-down periods to ensure compliance” with Trump’s order are allowed.