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The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned 21 Venezuelan officials, including security and cabinet-level leaders aligned with Nicolás Maduro. These actions, pursuant to Executive Order 13692, target individuals for supporting Maduro’s repression of civil society and attempts to declare himself the winner of the July 28 presidential election, despite Edmundo González Urrutia being elected by a significant majority.
On November 26, 2024, the Department extended the temporary modification of the Note to paragraph (h)(1) of USML Category VIII with regard to certain commodities used in the KF-21 aircraft or variants thereof.
Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a final rule imposing new controls on exports, reexports, and transfers (in-country) involving six key categories of items – some of which were previously controlled for nuclear nonproliferation reasons – to Pakistan to address diversion concerns.
Deep in the 782 Page annual doorstop prepared by the commission are sections of interest on export controls and the regulation of outbound investment.
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