The Office of Foreign Assets Control has added three individuals to its Specially Designated Nationals list, under Burundi Sanctions designations, OFAC said (here).

The Office of Foreign Assets Control has added six entities to, and deleted 10 entities from its Specially Designated Nationals list under Burma designations, OFAC said (here).

The Office of Foreign Assets Control is updating its Burma general licenses to continue the authorization of transactions related to trade of goods, technology, or non-financial services; remove the general license requirements for transactions with two financial institutions; and allow some transactions that would enable the “maintenance” of U.S. nationals living in the country, OFAC said (here). The agency has removed Myanma Economic Bank (MEB) and Myanma Investment and Commercial Bank (MICB) from its Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List), and transactions with those entities no longer require a general license, OFAC said. Additionally, OFAC is adding Innwa Bank and Myawaddy Bank to the general license in Section 537.531 of the Burmese Sanctions Regulations, authorizing most transactions with the institutions.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control added one individual to its Specially Designated Nationals list under Libya designations, OFAC said (here). Separately, the agency published General License 4A (here), “Authorizing Certain Transactions Involving Individuals or Entities Located in the Panamanian Mall and Associated Complex, Soho Panama, S.A. (a.k.a. Soho Mall Panama),” General License 5 (here), “Authorizing Certain Transactions and Activities Related to the Panamanian Seizure of Balboa Bank & Trust,” and General License 6 (here), “Authorizing Certain Transactions and Activities Related to the Intervention by the Superintendency of Securities Markets of Panama in Balboa Securities, Corp.” OFAC has also updated its list of Frequently Asked Questions pertaining to Panama (here).

The Office of Foreign Assets Control has added one individual and made several changes to entities and individuals previously sanctioned under the Kingpin Act from the Specially Designated Nationals list, OFAC said (here).

The Office of Foreign Assets Control has added eight individuals and 69 entities to its Specially Designated Nationals list, under Kingpin Act designations, OFAC said (here).

The Office of Foreign Assets Control on May 5 published three Kingpin Act general licenses, which would allow certain transactions to “wind down operations” for a hotel in Millennium Plaza, Panama (here), permit activities necessary to maintain Panamanian newspapers La Estrella and El Siglo (here), and authorize certain transactions with people or firms in the Panamanian mall Soho Panama (here). OFAC also posted three Frequently Asked Questions (here), and added several people and firms to its Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, the agency said (here).

The Office of Foreign Assets Control has added and removed several entities and individuals previously sanctioned under the Kingpin Act from the Specially Designated Nationals list, OFAC said (here).

The U.S. is extending until Oct. 31 the suspension of sanctions against the following Belarusian entities, which were previously scheduled to expire on April 30, the Office of Foreign Assets Control said (here):

No world economy raised the three red flags necessary to trigger increased U.S. bilateral engagement and possible sanctions to counter unfair currency manipulation through new procedures outlined by the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act, according to a Treasury report to Congress on the foreign exchange policies of major U.S. trading partners (here). However, Treasury has created a “Monitoring List,” including China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Germany, which satisfied two of the three criteria.