A U.N. human rights expert urged the U.N. Security Council and its member states to impose far-reaching punitive measures on the Myanmar military s senior leaders, associates and military-owned companies.
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In its first 50 days, the Biden administration has been busy utilizing sanctions and export controls to support its foreign policy priorities of human rights, multilateralism and support for democratic regimes. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the U.S. State Department (State) have all taken actions against a number of persons and entities in response to recent international developments related to Russia, Myanmar/Burma and Saudi Arabia.
Russia
On March 2, the administration undertook a series of coordinated, multi-agency actions to impose sanctions and export controls on Russia. These actions, which were mirrored by similar actions in the E.U., come in response to a number of recent provocations by Russia, according to the Biden administration, including the poisoning and subsequent imprisonment of disside
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On March 2, 2021, the Biden Administration, in a coordinated announcement by the U.S. Departments of Treasury, State, and Commerce, tightened export restrictions against Russia and imposed sanctions and other measures on certain Russian entities and individuals allegedly involved in the poisoning and subsequent imprisonment of Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption crusader who recently returned to Russia after being treated for Novichok poisoning in Germany. Earlier in the day, the EU had announced the addition of two of the same individuals identified by the U.S. to its sanctions list, which marked the first time the EU had implemented sanctions under the Human Rights Sanctions Regime which it introduced in early December 2020. The EU had already sanctioned six other individuals and one entity in October 2020 (many of whom were listed in the U.S. action on March 2) over the poisoning using the framework of the EU’s restrictive measure
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Aviation Cos. Can t Put Trade Compliance On Autopilot
Law360 (February 5, 2021, 2:11 PM EST) On Dec. 23, 2020, the U.S. Commerce Department s Bureau of Industry and Security, or BIS, which administers certain U.S. export controls, published its first-ever Military End User List. The list includes an initial tranche of 57 Chinese military end user companies, the majority of which are active in the aviation and aerospace industries.
This follows the recent addition of major Chinese aviation companies to the U.S. Department of Defense s list of Chinese military companies, first published on June 24, 2020, and later updated on Aug. 28, Dec. 3 and Jan. 14, which signaled that U.S. regulators were closely scrutinizing aviation industry.
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