At the December 9, 2010 meeting of the President’s Export Council, President Obama announced, among other things, the deployment of the Administration’s export control reform page on the Export.gov Web site (www.export.gov). Newly posted to the Web site is a downloadable file that consolidates export screening lists of the Departments of Commerce, State and the Treasury into one spreadsheet as an aide to industry in conducting electronic screens of potential parties to regulated transactions.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control is publishing the names of three newly-designated individuals in Pakistan whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13224, “Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism,” effective December 2, 2010. The individuals are: Amanullah Afridi, Abdul Rauf Azhar, and Mati Ur-rehman (see OFAC notice for known aliases, etc.).
On December 1, 2010, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs held a hearing entitled, “Implementing Tougher Sanctions on Iran: a Progress Report.” The hearing was held to assess whether U.S. and international sanctions against Iran are having their desired impact of persuading Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control has issued a final rule, effective December 7, 2010, amending the Global Terrorism Sanctions Regulations (GTSR) and the Terrorism Sanctions Regulations (TSR) to expand the scope of authorizations in each of those programs for the provision of certain legal services.
On December 2, 2010, Brian Nilsson, Director, Non-Proliferation and Arms Control at the National Security Council, provided an update on the Administration’s export control reform efforts as part of the National Export Initiative (NEI).
The Office of Foreign Assets Control is publishing the names of three newly-designated individuals in Pakistan whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13224, “Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism,” effective November 24, 2010. (See ITT's Online Archives or 11/29/10 news, 10112937 for previous BP summary of these designations.)
The Office of Foreign Assets Control has issued a final rule, effective November 30, 2010, which amends the Belarus Sanctions Regulations (31 CFR Part 548) to extend the authorization of U.S. persons to engage in otherwise prohibited transactions with two blocked entities, Lakokraska OAO and/or Polotsk Steklovolokno OAO, until May 31, 2011. In addition, OFAC is amending the BSR to make a technical correction to the authority citation.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control has released a periodic update of the list of authorized providers of air, travel and remittance forwarding services to Cuba.
The Office of Foreign Assets Controls has released the following civil penalties and enforcement information for November 16, 2010:
The Office of Foreign Assets Control is publishing the names of 37 newly-designated entities in Germany, Malta, and Cyprus; and 5 newly-designated individuals from Iran whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13382, “Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters,” effective October 27, 2010.