President Trump signed into law the Hong Kong Autonomy Act and issued a new executive order, which collectively put into place a framework for the U.S. government’s policy response to C...
On June 17, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 (the “Act”). The Act requires the President to submit to Congress within 180 days a repor...
On June 11, 2020, the President issued an Executive Order (the “Order”), “Blocking Property of Certain Persons Associated with the International Criminal Court,” which authorizes ...
On May 20, 2020, the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations to modify the scope of the mandatory declaration rules for transactions involving U.S. businesses involved in certain ...
On May 15, 2020, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce announced an expansion of General Prohibition No. 3 of the Export Administration Regulations ...
In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) released a Fact Sheet on April 16, 2020 regarding provisions re...
Recently, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced technical changes to the regulations implementing Treasury-administered economic sanctio...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury recently released a proposed rule to impose a filing fee for certain CFIUS transactions. If enacted, the proposed filing fee would raise strategic cons...
On February 18, 2020, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) imposed blocking sanctions pursuant to Executive Order (“E.O.”) 13850 against Rosn...
