News & Updates

The Justice Department today announced the seizure of 13 domains used by Specially Designated Nationals (SNDs), Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), and their members associated with Lebanese Hezbollah.

ALMATY — From April 23 - 26, Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes at the U.S. Department of the Treasury Elizabeth Rosenberg and Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement at the U.S. Department of Commerce Matthew Axelrod joined an interagency, multilateral visit to Astana and Almaty, Kazakhstan to continue close partnership on many issues, including countering the evasion of sanctions and export controls imposed on Russia for its war against Ukraine. 

Largest Standalone Administrative Penalty in BIS History

Largest Standalone Administrative Penalty in BIS History

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, as part of a coordinated enforcement effort, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) and the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) imposed a combined $3.3 million in civil penalties against Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”) for alleged and apparent violations of U.S. export controls and sanctions laws.

An investigation into the attempted smuggling of a dual-use export-controlled item to Russia in violation of United States export laws and regulations has resulted in the forfeiture of approximately $826,000.

Washington, D.C.—On March 29, 2023, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce issued an order denying the export privileges of two companies, Scott Communications, Inc. and Mission Communications, LLC, as well as their owner, Kenneth Peter Scott, (collectively Scott Communications) for a period of 20 years.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a rule that adds eleven entities based in Burma, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Nicaragua, and Russia to the Entity List for enabling or engaging in human rights abuses around the world. The rule also reaffirms BIS’s longstanding position that the protection of human rights throughout the world is a foreign policy interest that isa basis for adding parties to the Entity List.

Key Milestone Reached following first Summit for Democracy

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a rule adding 32 parties in eleven countries to the Unverified List (UVL). The entities are located in: Bulgaria, Canada, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the People’s Republic of China (14), Germany (2), Turkey (4), and the United Arab Emirates (5). The text of the rule, which is effective upon publication and includes the names of the entities added to the UVL, is available here.