Alison Cooper has left her role as the Office of Foreign Assets Control's enforcement chief to join the Navy Federal Credit Union, where she will manage issues related to OFAC and the Bank Secrecy Act, she announced on LinkedIn. Cooper worked at OFAC for over two decades, from 1997 to 2011 and again from 2017 until she left this month.

American Iron & Metal Co. (AIM), a Montreal-based scrap metal recycling company, has accused non-vessel operating common carrier Priva Logistics of New York state of preventing it from retrieving cargo shipped to India and Italy, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Maritime Commission.

The U.K. fined a British exporter $1,160,725.67 pounds (about $1.57 million) for violating sanctions against Russia, the country’s Revenue and Customs agency announced July 8. The penalty represented the largest settlement ever issued by the U.K.’s customs agency for a Russia-related sanctions breach. The exporter “made goods available to Russia in breach of” the sanctions, the U.K. said, but it provided no further details.

The Canada Border Services Agency recently issued a list of compliance and verification “priorities” for imported goods to alert traders about where it’s focusing its inspection and enforcement efforts.

China is imposing antidumping duties ranging from 27.7% to 34.9% for five years on brandy imported from the EU, China's Ministry of Commerce said, according to an unofficial translation. The duties won't apply to a list of 34 EU brandy products whose companies agreed to certain "price commitments" for their sales to China, a ministry spokesperson said. The new rates took effect July 5.

Reps. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., introduced a bill July 7 that would give the Treasury Department expanded authority to prohibit U.S. bank access for foreign financial institutions that serve Russia’s energy sector or sanctioned Russian entities.

A bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers issued a press release late July 7 calling on Congress to pass a bill that would require export-controlled advanced computing chips to contain location verification mechanisms.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week renewed a general license that authorizes payments of certain taxes, fees, import duties, licenses, certifications and other similar transactions involving the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the National Wealth Fund of the Russian Federation, and the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation that would normally be blocked under Directive 4 of Executive Order 14024. General License 13N, which replaces 13M, authorizes those transactions through 12:01 a.m. ET Oct. 9, as long as they're “ordinarily incident and necessary to the day-to-day operations in the Russian Federation of such U.S. persons or entities.” The license was scheduled to expire July 9.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned a North Korea-based hacker along with a Russian national and several related companies for helping to employ North Korean information technology workers abroad.

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