April 24, 2020 By: Natasha Bright, Content Writer, ACSS In order to gain insight in the real-world experience of those in the industry, the Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists (ACSS) has taken the time to ask sanctions professionals about their day-to-day...
April 24, 2018 Just as the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has great influence over the implementation of U.S. sanctions policy, its cousin – the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) – plays an equally vital...
March 22, 2017 By Anna Sayre, Legal Content Writer SanctionsAlert.com On March 7, three U.S. regulators – the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), and the Department of...
February 3, 2017 By: Michelle Turner Roberts, Dan Fisher-Owens, Ben Flowe, Perry Bechky, Babak Hoghooghi, Ray Gold, John Ordway, and Jason McClurg* With a stroke of his pen on January 13, 2017, by Executive Order 13761, President Obama effectively lifted the Sudan...
February 2, 2017 By: Anna Sayre, Legal Content Writer, SanctionsAlert.com On January 19, 2017, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amended the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to implement a new phase of export control...
