OFAC Updates Week 7/20/20

July 20, 2020

The President issued new Executive Order 13936, "The President's Executive Order on Hong Kong Normalization." The order declares that Hong Kong is no longer sufficiently autonomous from the People's Republic of China as viewed by the U.S. and therefore will no longer be given differential treatment.

See the Executive Order Below:

https://bit.ly/ExecutiveOrder13936

July 22, 2020

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has amended nine FAQs regarding the Ukraine and Russia in response to the issuance of General License 13O and General License 15I last week. FAQs 570, 571, 586, 588-592 and 562 were all amended.

See the Ukraine/Russia FAQ's Below:

https://bit.ly/RussiaUkraineFAQs

July 23, 2020

OFAC has updated their Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) list with Venezuela-related designations.

See the SDN list below:

https://bit.ly/TreasurySDNList

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