http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/58 Latest News on DDTC, BIS, OFAC, and other export law matters Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:06:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/58/comment-page-1#comment-2664 ExportLawBlog » OFAC Issues General License for Transactions with Palestinian Authority Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:20:46 +0000 http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/58#comment-2664 [...] On a broader note, these “secret sanctions” such as those imposed on the PA, and more recently on Nepal, are a compliance headache of the first order. A compliance officer might look at the list of sanctioned countries and the SDN list and never conclude that the Palestinian Authority or the Nepalese Government were sanctioned unless they happened to know, as well, that SDNs had become part of the PA and the Nepalese Government. Granted the sanctions aren’t completely secret because in both cases there were General Licenses ultimately issued which indirectly attest to the difficulties of dealing with the PA and Nepal. Still, here’s a question for export compliance officers: have the Government of Nepal and the Palestinian Authority ever been mentioned in your OFAC compliance programs? Permalink No Comments [...] [...] On a broader note, these “secret sanctions” such as those imposed on the PA, and more recently on Nepal, are a compliance headache of the first order. A compliance officer might look at the list of sanctioned countries and the SDN list and never conclude that the Palestinian Authority or the Nepalese Government were sanctioned unless they happened to know, as well, that SDNs had become part of the PA and the Nepalese Government. Granted the sanctions aren’t completely secret because in both cases there were General Licenses ultimately issued which indirectly attest to the difficulties of dealing with the PA and Nepal. Still, here’s a question for export compliance officers: have the Government of Nepal and the Palestinian Authority ever been mentioned in your OFAC compliance programs? Permalink No Comments [...]

]]> http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/58/comment-page-1#comment-550 ExportLawBlog » From Here to Kathmandu Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:10:49 +0000 http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/58#comment-550 [...] The U.S. Embassy in Nepal announced today that OFAC has granted a license to the U.S. Mission in Nepal and to the U.S. Agency for International Development to continue to provide assistance to the Government of Nepal notwithstanding the participation of the Communist Party of Nepal (usually referred to simply as the Maoists) in the interim government of Nepal. As we noted in an earlier post, the Maoists were added to the SDN list in 2003. Even though the Government of Nepal has reached a peace accord with the Maoists and included them in the interim government, the United States has not removed them from the SDN list. This means that provision of goods, services or financial assistance to the Government of Nepal or its agencies violates OFAC’s anti-terrorism sanctions regulations. [...] [...] The U.S. Embassy in Nepal announced today that OFAC has granted a license to the U.S. Mission in Nepal and to the U.S. Agency for International Development to continue to provide assistance to the Government of Nepal notwithstanding the participation of the Communist Party of Nepal (usually referred to simply as the Maoists) in the interim government of Nepal. As we noted in an earlier post, the Maoists were added to the SDN list in 2003. Even though the Government of Nepal has reached a peace accord with the Maoists and included them in the interim government, the United States has not removed them from the SDN list. This means that provision of goods, services or financial assistance to the Government of Nepal or its agencies violates OFAC’s anti-terrorism sanctions regulations. [...]

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