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Exporters should review new changes to AES reporting requirements

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 21 2013

On March 14, 2013, the US Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau) published a lengthy notice in the Federal Register amending and updating the

US sanctions on Iran: 2012 year in review

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Iran, USA
  • -
  • February 25 2013

The United States first imposed sanctions against Iran in 1979, and established the current Iran sanctions framework in the mid-1990s with the

OFAC amends ITSR to implement ITRA and executive order 13622

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 7 2013

On December 26, 2012, the US Treasury Department, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued amendments to the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions

BIS and DDTC propose changes to USML categories VI, VII, VIII, XI, and XV

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 4 2013

On November 28, 2012, the US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the US Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade

Congress sets stage for expanded sanctions against Iran under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Iran, USA
  • -
  • January 3 2013

On January 2, 2013, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (NDAA 2013) (H.R. 4310) expanding US

US continues “targeted easing” of Burma sanctions, including relaxing the Burmese import ban

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Myanmar, USA
  • -
  • November 27 2012

The US Government has continued to ease its economic sanctions directed at Burma (also called Myanmar

BIS proposes rule imposing voluntary self-disclosure deadlines and changing requirements for service of charging letters

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 9 2012

On November 7, 2012, the US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry Security published a proposed rule, at 77 Fed. Reg. 66777, which would require that the final narrative account in a voluntary self-disclosure (VSD) related to violations of the Export Administration Regulations be submitted to the Office of Export Enforcement within 180 days of the initial VSD notification

Foreign subsidiaries of US corporations now fully subject to Iranian sanctions

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Iran, USA
  • -
  • October 12 2012

On October 9, 2012, the President issued a new Executive Order, EO 13628, “Authorizing the Implementation of Certain Sanctions Set Forth in the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 and Additional Sanctions with Respect to Iran.”

Standard Chartered Bank settles sanctions allegations with New York regulators

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 24 2012

On August 14, 2012, Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered plc, a British Bank, announced that it had reached a $340 million settlement with the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS

US Department of the Treasury adds Iraq to list of boycotting countries

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Iraq, USA
  • -
  • August 17 2012

Today the US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) published a notice in the Federal Register, 17 Fed. Reg. 49864, adding Iraq to its list of countries that require or may require participation in, or cooperation with, an international boycott as defined under section 999 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (Code