The Office of Foreign Assets Control, often one of the most difficult and implacable federal agencies to deal with, has announced its intent to consider COVID-19 issues when addressing \u201capparent violations\u201d of its regulations. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a release dated April 20, 2020<\/span><\/a>, it stated \u201cIf a business facing technical and resource challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic chooses, as part of its risk-based approach to sanctions compliance, to account for such challenges by temporarily reallocating sanctions compliance resources consistent with that approach, OFAC will evaluate this as a factor in determining the appropriate administrative response to an apparent violation that occurs during this period.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It also published a a\u00a0fact sheet<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that summarizes existing exemptions and authorizations to provide humanitarian assistance in the context of the\u00a0Iran<\/a>,\u00a0Venezuela<\/a>,\u00a0North Korea<\/a>,\u00a0Syria<\/a>,\u00a0Cuba<\/a>, and\u00a0Ukraine\/Russia-related<\/a><\/span>?<\/a>\u00a0sanctions programs.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Office of Foreign Assets Control, often one of the most difficult and implacable federal agencies to deal with, has announced its intent to consider COVID-19 issues when addressing \u201capparent violations\u201d of its regulations. \u00a0 In a release dated April 20, 2020, it stated \u201cIf a business facing technical and resource challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic chooses, as part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[268,263],"class_list":["post-7119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-export-sanctions","tag-ofac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.customscourt.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.customscourt.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.customscourt.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.customscourt.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.customscourt.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.customscourt.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7123,"href":"https:\/\/www.customscourt.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions\/7123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.customscourt.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.customscourt.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.customscourt.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}