On August 24, 2017, President Trump signed Executive Order 13808 (“Order”) imposing additional sanctions on Venezuela. The Order states that these sanctions, which primarily target the Government of Venezuela and the Venezuelan oil industry, are in response to the deepening political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.
On June 30, 2017, the Federal Register published Presidential Proclamation 9625 of June 29, 2017 – To Modify Duty-Free Treatment Under the Generalized System of Preferences and for Other Purposes. The Proclamation makes the following changes to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS):
On May 26, 2017, the Department of State published in the Federal Register a determination and certification [Public Notice: 10006] to Congress that the following countries are not cooperating fully with United States antiterrorism efforts: Eritrea, Iran, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea), Syria and Venezuela The determination and certification were made under section 40A of the Arms Export Control Act.
On April 26, 2017, the Department of State published in the Federal Register a notice updating the list of Participants eligible for trade in rough diamonds under the Clean Diamond Trade Act of 2003 (the “Act”; Public Law 108-19) and Section 2 of Executive Order 13312 of July 29, 2003,
On January 13, 2017, the President signed Notice of January 13, 2017 – Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Venezuela, originally declared by Executive Order 13692, because of the situation in Venezuela,
On May 26, 2016, the Department of State published in the Federal Register a document [Public Notice: 9584] announcing that on May 3, 2016, it certified that 14 shrimp-harvesting nations (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Gabon, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, and Suriname) have a regulatory program comparable to that of the United States governing the incidental taking of the relevant species of sea turtles in the course of commercial shrimp…
On March 7, 2016, the Federal Register published Presidential Notice of March 3, 2016 – Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Venezuela which continues for an additional year the national emergency first declared in Executive Order (EO) 13692 (March 8, 2015) with respect to the situation in Venezuela, including the Government of Venezuela’s erosion of human rights guarantees, persecution of political opponents, curtailment of press freedoms, use of violence and human rights violations…
On October 5, 2015, the Federal Register published Proclamation 9333 of September 30, 2015 – To Modify Duty-Free Treatment Under the Generalized System of Preferences and for Other Purposes. The proclamation: • modifies, effective October 1, 2015, the Rates of Duty 1–Special subcolumn for the corresponding Chapter 52, HTS subheadings in order to designate certain articles as eligible articles only when imported from a least-developed (LD) beneficiary developing country (BDC) for purposes of the Generalized…
On May 27, 2015, the Department of State (State) published in the Federal Register a document [Public Notice: 9148] in which the Secretary of State determined and certified to Congress, pursuant to section 40A of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2781), and Executive Order 13637, as amended, that the following countries are not cooperating fully with United States antiterrorism efforts: Eritrea, Iran, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea), Syria, and…