The United Kingdom’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation on July 28 issued a correction for five entries under its Yemen sanctions regime. The change corrects identifying information for Abdullah Yahya al Hakim, Abd al-Khaliq al-Houthi, Abdulmalik al-Houthi, Ali Abdullah Saleh and Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned two “financial facilitators” for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria for helping to fund terrorism, OFAC said July 28. The designations target Faruq Hamud in Syria and ‘Adnan Amin Muhammad al-Rawi in Turkey.

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A Pennsylvania cookware coating manufacturer was fined about $824,000 after its foreign subsidiaries violated U.S. sanctions against Iran, the Office of Foreign Assets Control said in a July 28 notice. OFAC said Whitford Worldwide Company subsidiaries in Italy and Turkey illegally exported coatings to Iran, and U.S. company employees oversaw the transactions.

The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls is considering permanently revising the International Traffic in Arms Regulations to allow industry employees involved in ITAR-related activities to work remotely, DDTC said in a notice released July 28. DDTC also said that in response to industry requests it will extend temporary telework measures, which had been set to expire July 31, through Dec. 31 (see 2007230033). The agency said it will use that time to “fully investigate the possibility and ramifications of making this modification, or a variation thereof, a permanent revision,” and may seek comments on the change.

The United Kingdom’s Department for International Trade on July 27 issued a list of controlled imports from the European Union. The U.K. clarified that importers of the goods must follow import declaration requirements, effective Jan. 1, following the U.K.'s official departure from the EU. The list contains more than 20 broad categories of goods, including excise goods such as alcohol and tobacco, controlled drugs, plant products, military items, certain weapons and fishery products.

Fees on imported vehicles “required to be registered with the Registrar of Imported Vehicles,” will increase on Aug. 1, the Canada Border Services Agency said in a July 23 customs notice. The fee increases apply to imports using “a Vehicle Import Form - Form 1" or “Vehicle Imported for Parts Form - Form 3,” it said.

Canada will remove trade barriers that hinder imports of Australian wine into the Canadian market, including in Ontario and Nova Scotia, Australia’s trade ministry said July 27. Australia said Canada’s “discriminatory measures” had disadvantaged Australian exporters for a “number” of years, and the lifted restrictions will lead to “increased access” for Australian wine exports. “Removing these trade barriers will mean our wine exporters can now compete on a level playing field with Canadian wine producers,” said Simon Birmingham, minister for trade, tourism and investment. Australia said it will continue to push Canada to lift import restrictions in Quebec, where trade barriers remain.

The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls is seeking comments on an information collection related to advisory opinion requests, a notice released July 27 said. The revision of the collection is meant to “conform the current [Office of Management and Budget]-approved data collection to DDTC’s new case management system,” the notice said. Comments are due Aug. 27.

The United Kingdom and Indonesia held the second round of a “trade review” last week to discuss increasing trade and investment to recover from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, a July 24 news release said. The U.K. said the two sides made “excellent progress” on a “wide range of sectors,” including pharmaceuticals, energy and technology. Natalie Black, the U.K.’s trade commissioner for the Asia Pacific, said the U.K. hopes its trading relationship with Indonesia expands opportunities with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and other countries in Southeast Asia.