The Office of Foreign Assets Control is publishing the names of eight individuals in Colombia whose property and interests in property have been unblocked pursuant to Executive Order 12978, "Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions With Significant Narcotics Traffickers," effective September 1, 2010.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control is removing the names of ten entities and three individuals from the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons whose property and interests in property have been blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13224, "Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism," effective September 1, 2010.
The State Department, is designating three North Korean entities pursuant to Executive Order 13382, “Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters”: the Second Academy of Natural Sciences (SANS), the Second Economic Committee (SEC), and the Munitions Industry Department (MID). The designation is effective August 30, 2010.
The Department of State has imposed statutory debarment pursuant to 22 CFR 127.7(c) of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations on 24 persons convicted of violating or attempting to violate Section 38 of the Arms Export Control Act, as amended (AECA). At the end of the three-year period following the date of conviction, the listed persons/entities remain debarred unless export privileges are reinstated.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control has updated its list of authorized providers of air, travel, and remittance forwarding services to Cuba. OFAC periodically and routinely updates the names and addresses of the Service Providers for the benefit of the public.
The Foreign Agriculture Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The National Institute of Standards and Technology posts drafts and changes to foreign technical regulations for manufactured products which may be considered technical barriers to trade and are therefore required to be reported to the World Trade Organization, which distributes the information to WTO Member countries.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has issued a notice announcing that the Committee of Chairs of the Industry Trade Advisory Committees (ITACs) will hold a partially open meeting on September 17, 2010. The topics to be discussed are the National Export Initiative and the Report of the Chairs on ITACs’ Trade Priority Issues and Concerns.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has issued a notice, effective September 7, 2010, announcing that it is changing its policy and eliminating expiration dates for classification approvals because its current policy of a 5-year expiration date for classification approvals has had unanticipated effects. Existing classification approvals with expiration dates will be reissued by PHMSA in accordance with the change of policy. While expiration dates for classification approvals will be eliminated, PHMSA retains the authority to issue approvals with expiration dates on a case-by-case basis.
The State Department, World Health Organization, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently issued the following travel warnings, travel alerts, country specific information sheets, and disease outbreak-related information: