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The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) administers and enforces various economic and trade sanctions programs. It sanctions people and entities by adding them to the Specially Designated Nationals List, and it maintains several other restricted party lists, including the Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies List, which includes entities subject to certain investment restrictions. 

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Trade Shows Weighing Virus Cancellations Advised to Get in Front of 'Rumors'
March 2, 2020 by Paul Gluckman|Broadcast

The next two to eight weeks will be “telling” for whether the coronavirus brings down additional trade shows as it did the MWC 2020 event in Barcelona (see 2002120056), Jack Buttine, president, John Buttine Insurance, told an International Association of Exhibitions and Events (IAEE) webinar Friday. CTA belongs to IAEE, as does NAB. Buttine’s firm sells event-cancellation insurance, and advises trade-show organizers to add communicable-disease coverage to their policies. “The question arises often what show organizers should tell their exhibitors if they see loss coming,” said Buttine. “The big peril facing a show is rumors. Will this show cancel or not?” He thinks “getting out in front of the rumors” through website messaging is critically important, he said. The NAB Show is "proceeding as planned" April 18-22 in Las Vegas, blogged organizers Friday. The show "is committed to ensuring our response during this challenging time is responsibly based in facts, not driven by fear," they said. "We continue to closely review all guidance from global, federal and local health authorities to implement what is needed for the good of our show community and the good of our industry." The FCC is revising its pandemic plan, in case the virus becomes one (see 2002280046).

Pandemic Plan in Place if Necessary, FCC Says Amid Coronavirus
March 2, 2020 by Jonathan Make|Top News

The FCC has a plan for dealing with a pandemic if necessary, said Chairman Ajit Pai and others answering our queries during news conferences Friday. So far, the main coronavirus effect on the regulator has been cancelation of an annual wireless conference, members told us. Commissioner Geoffrey Starks worries about impacts on 911 systems and about getting more people connected to residential broadband.