Trump administration expected to maintain changes, but certain restrictions remain.

In the final days of his administration, President Obama announced significant changes to the US embargo against Sudan, in place since 1997. The US Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) subsequently issued a sweeping new general license authorizing most trade and business involving US persons and Sudan. On a parallel track, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced more favorable licensing policies for exports and reexports of certain US-regulated items to Sudan. Notwithstanding these developments, Sudan's “State Sponsor of Terrorism” designation remains, and US export controls continue to restrict the export or reexport of a broad range of US-regulated products and technology to Sudan.