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EU designates eleven individuals and four entities under Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime

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On 22 March 2021, the EU imposed restrictive measures on eleven individuals and four entities in relation to alleged human rights violations, including: four individuals and one company with links to the large-scale arbitrary detentions of Uyghurs in Xinjiang;two individuals and one company in the DPRK, responsible for implementing repressive security policies and other human rights violations;two officials in Libya and the armed Libyan militia, responsible for serious human rights abuses including extrajudicial killings;two Russian individuals involved in violations of LGBTI…

US – OFAC amends WMD Proliferators Sanctions Regulations and Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations

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On October 1, 2020, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Treasury, published in the Federal Register a final rule amending the Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators Sanctions Regulations (WMD Regulations; 31 CFR part 544) to update a note to describe how persons designated pursuant to the WMD Regulations for North Korea-related activities are identified on OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List). Specifically, OFAC is amending the note to explain that…

US Government warns about North Korea links in supply chains and related sanctions risks

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The US Departments of State, Treasury, and Homeland Security warned companies in a new advisory entitled, Risks for Businesses with Supply Chain Links to North Korea, that deceptive practices by North Korea to evade US, UN, and other sanctions could put them at risk of prohibited or sanctionable dealings with the North Korean regime.  The advisory published on July 24, 2018 follows February 2018 guidance from the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control regarding certain deceptive shipping practices of North Korea to avoid US sanctions (see our prior blog post here).  The new advisory encourages companies to undertake enhanced due diligence within their supply chains to avoid prohibited or sanctionable: (i) sourcing of goods, services, or technology from North Korea and (ii) use of the labor of North Korean citizens or nationals, which is presumed to be forced labor, regardless of where such labor occurs.