{"id":449,"date":"2021-03-14T15:02:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T19:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exportcompliancesolutions.com\/blog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2021-03-14T15:02:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T19:02:48","slug":"russia-burma-face-new-export-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exportcompliancesolutions.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/14\/russia-burma-face-new-export-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Burma Face New Export Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russia to Rejoin 126.1, Individuals and Entities Face Additional Sanctions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On March 2, 2021, the U.S. Department of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/imposing-sanctions-on-russia-for-the-poisoning-and-imprisonment-of-aleksey-navalny\/\">announced<\/a> a series of new sanctions related to \u201cThe Russian Federation\u2019s Use of a Chemical Weapon in the Attempted Assassination of Russian Opposition Figure Aleksey Navalny in August 2020 and his Subsequent Imprisonment in January 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The addition of Russia to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecfr.gov\/cgi-bin\/retrieveECFR?gp=&amp;SID=70e390c181ea17f847fa696c47e3140a&amp;mc=true&amp;r=PART&amp;n=pt22.1.126\">\u00a7126.1<\/a> prohibited destination list, with limited exceptions for government space cooperation, expands on chemical weapons sanctions imposed in 2018, among others.\u00a0 Including parallel actions by the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), new sanctions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New individuals and entities sanctioned under the Countering America\u2019s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (<a href=\"https:\/\/ecscreening.com\/index.php\/blog\/58-know-your-sanctions-lists-beyond-the-csl-caatsa-section-231\">CAATSA<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>New individuals and entities <a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/jy0045\">added<\/a> to OFAC\u2019s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (<a href=\"https:\/\/ecscreening.com\/index.php\/blog\/29-know-your-sanctions-lists-the-sdn-list\">SDN List<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>New individuals and entities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commerce.gov\/news\/press-releases\/2021\/03\/us-department-commerce-adds-14-parties-entity-list-support-russian\">added<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/ecscreening.com\/index.php\/blog\/28-know-your-sanctions-lists-the-entity-list\">Entity List<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While Russia has been treated more or less as a \u00a7126.1 country through both license review policies and its specific exclusion from the ITAR cloud rule at \u00a7120.54(a)(5), the listing will affect a number other ITAR compliance areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Proposed and final sales<\/em><\/strong>: Broad prohibition ranges from proposals and presentations to actual sales and exports.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Disclosures<\/em>:<\/strong> An affirmative duty to <u>immediately<\/u> inform the Directorate of Defense Trade Control (DDTC) of any \u201cproposed, final, or actual sale, export, transfer, reexport, or retransfer of articles, services, or data.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Exemptions<\/em><\/strong>: Most exemptions are not available for 126.1 countries.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Dual\/Third Country Nationals<\/em><\/strong>: \u00a7126.18(c)(2) will require screening for substantive contacts with Russia.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Brokering<\/em>:<\/strong> Additional restrictions under Part 129.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Department also published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/u-s-sanctions-and-other-measures-imposed-on-russia-in-response-to-russias-use-of-chemical-weapons\/\">fact sheet<\/a> on the new sanctions.\u00a0 Russia had been listed in \u00a7126.1 until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/1996\/05\/03\/96-11090\/amendment-to-the-list-of-proscribed-destinations\">April 3, 2006<\/a>. \u00a0The new \u00a7126.1 listing will take effect through a Federal Register Notice that has not yet been published.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Burma Sanctioned Over Military Coup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On February 17, 2021, BIS published a notice (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/02\/18\/2021-03350\/burma-implementation-of-sanctions\">86 FR 10011<\/a>) of a more restrictive license review policy and suspension of some license exceptions following the February 1<sup>st<\/sup> military coup in Burma.\u00a0 On March 8, 2021, this was followed by two new rules (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/03\/08\/2021-04745\/burma-implementation-of-sanctions\">86 FR 13173<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/03\/08\/2021-04794\/addition-of-entities-to-the-entity-list\">86 FR 13179<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/03\/08\/2021-04745\/burma-implementation-of-sanctions\">The first rule<\/a> amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Move Burma from Country Group B to Country Group D:1, rendering many license exceptions unavailable;<\/li>\n<li>Subject Burma to military end use and end user restrictions; and<\/li>\n<li>Move Burma from Computer Tier 1 to Computer Tier 3 in the Computers (APP) license exception.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/03\/08\/2021-04794\/addition-of-entities-to-the-entity-list\">The second rule<\/a> adds four Burmese entities to the <a href=\"https:\/\/ecscreening.com\/index.php\/blog\/28-know-your-sanctions-lists-the-entity-list\">Entity List<\/a>, which imposes a license requirement for all items subject to the EAR under a license review policy of denial.<\/p>\n<p>Sanctions on Burma had been relaxed in recent years, following improvements in human rights and democracy.\u00a0 Burma was moved from Country Group D:1 to Country Group B in 2016, while remaining in Country Groups D:3 and D:5 (related to chemical and biological weapons proliferation concerns and arms embargoes).\u00a0 In 2017, OFAC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2017\/06\/16\/2017-12557\/removal-of-burmese-sanctions-regulations\">removed the Burmese Sanctions Regulations<\/a> following the termination of the underlying Executive Order.<\/p>\n<p>Burma has long been and remains ITAR \u00a7126.1 prohibited destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia to Rejoin 126.1, Individuals and Entities Face Additional Sanctions On March 2, 2021, the U.S. Department of State announced a series of new sanctions related to \u201cThe Russian Federation\u2019s Use of a Chemical Weapon in the Attempted Assassination of Russian Opposition Figure Aleksey Navalny in August 2020 and his Subsequent 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