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The U.S. does not maintain a specific list of countries that U.S. persons cannot do business with because its sanctions program varies in scope depending on the sanctions program. Although some sanctions programs are broad and target entire jurisdictions ("comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions"), most are "targeted" sanctions and focus on ...
The United States has imposed economic sanctions on multiple countries, such as France, United Kingdom and Japan since the 1800s. Some of the most famous economic sanctions in the history of the United States of America include the Boston Tea Party against the British Parliament, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act against its trading partners and the 2002 steel tariff against China. [1]
The new Act provides a statutory framework for the President to institute sanctions against foreign drug kingpins when such sanctions are appropriate, with the objective of denying their businesses and agents access to the U.S. financial system and to the benefits of trade and transactions involving U.S. businesses and individuals.
The Biden admin unveiled sanctions on Iran’s missile and drone programs after U.N. sanctions ended. The U.S. has said Iran is complicit in the Hamas attack on Israel.
The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on a China-based network for helping North Korea develop its ballistic missile and space programs, the U.S. Treasury Department said. The six ...
Iran has been unable to access billions of dollars in assets in several countries due to U.S. sanctions. The United States has insisted that oil-rich Iraq, the OPEC group's second-largest producer ...
As of August 8, 2020, OFAC was administering the following sanctions programs: [33] Table note: The numbers of individuals, companies, vessels, and aircraft are taken from the SDN List. However, any single entry on that list may be a target of multiple sanctions programs, so summing lines of the table will inflate the true sum due to duplication.
Economic sanctions; 2006–2007 economic sanctions against the Palestinian National Authority; Economic sanctions against the United States; Embargo of Russian oil during the Russo-Ukrainian War; EU natural gas price cap