The Office of Foreign Assets Control added the following individuals and entities to its Specially Designated Nationals List June 12. All were added under Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations unless otherwise noted.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control added the following individuals to the Specially Designated Nationals List June 11. All were added under Global Terrorism Sanctions Regulations.

The Alcohol Tax and Trade Bureau relaxed its requirements for listing of alcohol by volume on wine labels, dropping its mandate that the information be listed on the brand label in particular. Effective Aug. 9, alcohol by volume content information will be allowed to be listed on any label on the bottle. The final rule adopts a 2007 proposal meant to align TTB’s regulations with provisions of the World Wine Trade Group labeling agreement that only specifies the four required label elements -- country of origin, alcohol content, net contents, and product name -- be listed in the same “field of view.”

The Office of Foreign Assets Control added the following individual to its Specially Designated Nationals List June 6:

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control added the following individuals to the Specially Designated Nationals List June 5. All were added under Transnational Criminal Organizations Designations, which stems from a 2011 Executive Order that authorized additional actions to combat transnational organized crime. The individuals named are listed as leaders of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13 gang, which has roots in El Salvador.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control added the following entities to its Specially Designated Nationals List on June 4. All were added under Iranian Transaction Regulations.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control added the following entities to the Specially Designated Nationals list on May 31:

The Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a General License detailing certain services, software and hardwire related to personal communications that can be exported and reexported to Iran on May 30. General License D lists all authorized transactions in that category. the License does not exempt businesses from the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations. Authorized transactions -- exportation or reexportation, directly or indirectly -- are:

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control added the following individual to its Specially Designated Nationals List May 30, added under a 2010 Executive Order that blocks property of certain people for human rights abuses by Iran’s government.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control released its 2012 report on U.S. assets relating to terrorist countries and international terrorism program designees May 28. The annual report, submitted to Congress, provides data on blocked U.S. funds relating to international terrorist organization, state sponsors of terrorism and non-blocked funds relating to Iran and Syria.