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Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on an international oil smuggling network that has facilitated the shipment of millions of barrels of Iranian crude oil, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This action aligns with the February 4 National Security Presidential Memorandum, which mandates maximum economic pressure on Iran to prevent its nuclear advancement and regional destabilization.
The State Department released an update on the prior year's arms trade, with Foreign Military Sales at their highest levels in history and Direct Commercial Sales up smartly from the prior period. In FY2024 the total value of transferred defense articles and services and security cooperation activities conducted under the Foreign Military Sales system was $117.9 billion. This represents a 45.7% increase, up from $80.9 billion in FY2023.
The Department of State amends the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) to remove from the U.S. Munitions List (USML) items that no longer warrant inclusion, add to the USML items that warrant inclusion, and clarify certain entries. With these amendments, the Department also supersedes and thus terminates the temporary modification to USML Category VIII that was published on December 4, 2023, and extended on November 26, 2024.
BIS added 11 Chinese entities to the Entity List, 10 for advanced artificial intelligence research and one for development of lithography technology for advanced-node fabrication facilities. The committee also removed three Indian nuclear research entities after diplomatic considerations. In another filing the same day, BIS added 16 entities to the Entity List, under the destinations of China, People's Republic of (China) (14) and Singapore (2) due to their involvement in supporting or directly contributing to the development of advanced computing integrated circuits (ICs) that further China's development of advanced weapons systems, weapons of mass destruction, and high-tech surveillance applications, and because these entities supply Chinese public security end users and pose a risk of diversion to Huawei, an entity on the Entity List. …
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