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Sanctions
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Cleary Foreign Investment and International Trade Watch
OFAC General Licenses Open Door for Lukoil Divestment and Other Limited Activities Following Rosneft and Lukoil Sanctions
By Chase D. Kaniecki, Samuel H. Chang, Kerry Mullins
For more insights and analysis from Cleary lawyers on policy and regulatory developments from a legal perspective, visit What to Expect From a Second Trump Administration. On October 22, 2025, the…
Money Laundering Watch
OFAC Sanctions: AML Compliance with DPRK-Linked Activity
On November 4, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated eight individuals and two entities for their involvement in laundering funds derived from…
Southern California Appellate News
4/2 publishes order re AI sanctions
Yesterday 4/2 published this order imposing sanctions on a lawyer who cited AI hallucinated cases (i.e., cases that do not exist) in a petition for writ of supersedeas and in an…
SmarTrade
OFAC Issues New and Amended Russia-related General Licenses
By Scott E. Diamond**, Francesca M.S. Guerrero, Aaron C. Mandelbaum, Kristina Shcheglazova*
On November 14, 2025, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued several new and amended general licenses authorizing limited transactions under previous sanctions involving Russia’s…
SmarTrade
USTR Announces One-Year Suspension of Section 301 Countermeasures Targeting China’s Maritime, Logistics, and Shipbuilding Sectors
By Aaron C. Mandelbaum, David M. Schwartz
On November 13, 2025, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) published a notice in the Federal Register announcing a nearly one-year suspension—until November 10, 2026—of countermeasures it imposed…
Texas Law Blog
International Trade Update: United States Trade Representative Halts Chinese-Vessel Port Fees
In the wake of a recent and markedly successful U.S.-China trade mission, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) has issued a formal notice suspending the actions and…
Bright Law Blog
New Sanctions Advisory notes
The Australian Sanctions Office (ASO) has released 8 new advisory notes to assist financial service providers in understanding their sanctions risks. The advisory notes include: Sanctions risks of specific banking…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Liechtenstein’s ‘zombie trust’ woes spread to Caribbean
[Special thanks to Joel C. Dobris (Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law) for bringing this article to my attention.] Liechtenstein’s effort to enforce Western sanctions on Russia is causing…
Global Policy Watch
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Action on Russia and China-related Legislation
The government is officially closed, and the House of Representatives is in an extended recess, but the Senate keeps working. On Wednesday October 22, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held…
Dispute Resolution Blog
On the List: OFAC’s Iran Sanctions Impacting Indian Companies and Nationals
By Nikhil Varshney, Kritika Angirish, Ansh Asawa
Summary: This blog examines the October 2025 OFAC sanctions targeting Iranian oil trade, which included eight Indian nationals and nine Indian companies on the Specially Designated Nationals list. It…