On December 15, 2025, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued Belarus General License 13, “Authorizing Transactions Involving Joint Stock Company Belarusian Potash Company, Agrorozkvit LLC, and Belaruskali OAO.” The general license authorizes all transactions prohibited by the Belarus Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 548 (“BSR”), involving Joint Stock Company
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The United States Imposes New Sanctions and Export Controls Targeting Russia and Belarus, Issues Joint Compliance Guidance, and Announces Corporate Compliance with Sanctions and Export Controls as an Enforcement Priority
On February 24, 2023, the United States and other G7 nations announced a number of new sanctions and export control measures coinciding with the one-year mark of Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine. Shortly after these expansive sanctions and export controls were announced, the Departments of Justice (“DOJ”), the Treasury (“Treasury”), and Commerce (“Commerce”) issued their…
U.S., EU and UK Escalate Belarus Sanctions
By Carlton Greene, Anand Sithian, Dj Wolff & Caroline Brown on
On December 2, 2021, the United States, the European Union (“EU”), the United Kingdom (“UK”) and other allies took coordinated action to designate various individuals, entities, and aircraft connected to human rights abuses by Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko and his regime. This builds on asset freezing actions by the U.S., UK, EU, and Canada earlier…
OFAC Revokes Belarus General License (General License 2G or GL 2G)
By Dj Wolff, Carlton Greene, Jeffrey L. Snyder & Laurel Saito on
On April 19, 2021, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued Belarus General License 2H (“GL 2H”) revoking General License 2G (“GL 2G”), which was due to expire on April 25, 2021.
For more than five years, OFAC regularly extended GL 2 G, and earlier versions of it, authorizing U.S. person activity with the…