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Embargoed Country List - Export Control

III. EMBARGOED COUNTRY LIST

Below is a list of countries subject to U.S. sanctions or embargoes maintained by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) or the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) as of August 2006. Included are notes about the nature of the sanctions or embargoes and the U.S. government agency that maintains them.
 

Afghanistan (Embargoed)

  • Denies licenses, other approvals, exports and defense services, defense articles.

Balkans  (Sanctioned)

  • Prohibition on engaging in transactions with designated persons who threaten international stabilization efforts in the Balkans (OFAC).

Belarus  (Embargoed)

  • Denies licenses, other approvals, exports and defense services, defense articles.

Burma (Sanctioned/Embargoed)

  • Prohibition on engaging in transactions with designated nationals of Burma;

  • Prohibition on engaging in exporting financial services and importing Burmese products (OFAC)

China (Embargoed)

  • Arms Embargoed Country
  • An export license is required for commercial goods, services, or technology intended for China for reasons of: chemical and biological weapons proliferation, nuclear proliferation, national security, missile technology, regional stability, and crime control.

Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)

(Sanctioned/Embargoed)

  • Prohibition of all licenses and other approvals to export or otherwise transfer defense articles and defense services

Cuba (Sanctioned/Embargoed)

  • Comprehensive sanctions, including deemed export controls (OFAC & BIS);
  • Diamond Traders Sanctions against importers and exporters of rough diamonds (OFAC).
  • Denies licenses, other approvals, exports and defense services, defense articles.

Cyprus (Sanctioned)

  • Denies licenses, other approvals, exports and defense services, defense articles destined for or originating except to UN Forces.

Democratic Republic of the Congo(Embargoed)

  • Arms Embargoed Country
  • Denies licenses, other approvals, exports and defense services, defense articles.

Eritrea (Embargoed)

  • Denies licenses, other approvals, exports and defense services, defense articles.

Haiti (Embargoed)

  • ·Denies licenses, other approvals, exports and defense services, defense articles.

Iran (Sanctioned/Embargoed)

  • Comprehensive sanctions (OFAC & BIS)
  • Denies licenses, other approvals, exports and defense services, defense articles.

Iraq  (Sanctioned/Embargoed)

  • Prohibition on engaging in transactions with designated persons associated with former Iraqi regime;
  • Prohibition on engaging in transactions involving certain Iraqi cultural property (OFAC)
  • Denies licenses, other approvals, exports and defense services, defense articles.

Liberia   (Sanctioned/Embargoed)

  • Prohibition on engaging in transactions with designated persons associated with former Liberian regime;
  • Prohibition on importing Liberian logs or timber products (OFAC);
  • Narcotics Traffickers Prohibition on engaging in transactions with designated narcotics traffickers (OFAC)
  • Nonproliferation Sanctions Prohibition on engaging in transactions with persons designated as weapons of mass destruction proliferators or supporters;
  • Prohibition on importing products produced or provided by persons subject to nonproliferation sanctions (OFAC)

Libya (Sanctioned/Embargoed)

  • Denies licenses, other approvals, exports and defense services, defense articles.

North Korea (Sanctioned/Embargoed)

  • Prohibition on importing products from North Korea;
  • Prohibitions on receiving certain transfers from the North Korean government; including donations (OFAC)
  • Denies licenses, other approvals, exports and defense services, defense articles.

Palestinian Authority

  • Sanctioned

Rwanda (Embargoed)

  • Arms embargoed (BIS)
  • Denies licenses, other approvals, exports and defense services, defense articles.

Somalia (Embargoed)

  • Denies licenses, other approvals, exports and defense services, defense articles.
  • Arms embargoed (BIS)

Sudan (Sanctioned/Embargoed)

  • Comprehensive embargo (OFAC)
  • Denies licenses, other approvals, exports and defense services, defense articles.

Syria (Sanctioned/Embargoed)

  • Comprehensive export and re-export sanctions, including deemed export controls (BIS);
  • Prohibitions on engaging in transactions with designated nationals of Syria and receiving certain transfers from the Syrian government, including donations (OFAC);
  • Prohibition on engaging in transactions with designated terrorists or terrorist organizations (OFAC & BIS).

Venezuela (Sanctioned October, 2006)

  • Sanctioned as of October 1st, 2006

Vietnam  (Embargoed)

  • Denies licenses, other approvals, exports and defense services, defense articles.

Yemen (Embargoed)

  • Denies licenses, other approvals, exports and defense services, defense articles.

Zimbabwe (Sanction/Embargoed)

  • Prohibition on engaging in transactions with designated persons who undermine democratic processes or institutions in Zimbabwe (OFAC).

NOTE: The list of countries and persons subject to sanctions or embargoes changes from time to time. Additional information and changes about the OFAC sanctions or embargoes is contained in OFAC's Sanctions Program Country Summaries.