An Ounce of Prevention Podcast | Syria Sanctions Revoked: What Comes Next?
Export controls and economic sanctions have remained an active and evolving area of laws and regulations that continue to impact the aviation industry in 2025 – both contributing to and arising as a result of an increasingly...more
Bottom Line - Repeal of the Caesar Act eliminates broad sanctions regimes on certain business activities in or with Syria. While this creates new commercial opportunities in Syria, other US sanctions, designations, and...more
In this weekly update, we summarise the most notable updates in the UK sanctions world. Russia Sanctions...more
In this weekly update, we summarise the most notable updates in the UK sanctions world....more
In this weekly update, we summarise the most notable updates in the UK sanctions world. RUSSIA SANCTIONS...more
On November 10, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce), the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury), and the U.S. Department of State issued a Tri-Seal Advisory, “Sanctions and Export Controls Relief for Syria”...more
Doing business in Syria has become a little easier. Combined efforts by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in removing comprehensive Syria sanctions and the Commerce Department’s Bureau of...more
The U.S. Departments of Commerce and the Treasury took steps this September to further ease restrictions on Syria following the fall of the Assad regime. In early September, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and...more
In a notice published in the Federal Register on September 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Syria will be terminated, effective...more
In a move that will impact thousands of workers and their employers, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has officially terminated the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Syria. The announcement, published...more
The Trump administration has taken recent steps to rescind longstanding sanctions and export control restrictions on Syria. Aligning US policy with President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14312 of 30 June 2025, “Providing...more
As of September 2, 2025, for the first time in more than two decades, the Syrian market has opened significantly for U.S. businesses and U.S. persons. ...more
The pace of U.S. regulatory changes regarding Syria continues to increase. Building on our previous posts (“Syria-ous Changes for Middle East Business?” and “Unpacking the U-Turn: What the Syria Sanctions Repeal Really...more
After a three month wait, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has finally caught up with the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in relaxing restrictions...more
Key Takeaways: The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) has issued a final rule significantly relaxing export controls on Syria under the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”), in line with Executive Order 14312, which...more
On September 2, 2025, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued its widely anticipated Final Rule “Relaxing Export Controls for Syria” (the “BIS Rule”) that substantially eases export...more
On August 28, 2025, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a rule relaxing certain restrictions on Syria under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). But unlike the much broader...more
On August 28, 2025, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a final rule relaxing export controls on Syria in response to the June 30, 2025 Executive Order (EO) 14312 “Providing for the...more
Each quarter, I send my clients a trade compliance update, highlighting important developments over the last few months and summarizing key points for important sanctions programs. In addition to a variety of ad hoc...more
On June 30, 2025, the President signed an Executive Order (EO) lifting sanctions on Syria and directing the U.S. Department of State (DOS) and the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) to relax or suspend other programs (e.g.,...more
On July 15, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced a settlement agreement with Interactive Brokers LLC (“Interactive Brokers”) violations of multiple U.S. sanctions...more
In the wake of the Trump administration’s sweeping rollback of sanctions on Syria, businesses face a complex landscape as they contemplate reentering the Syrian market. In this episode of "An Ounce of Prevention," host Andrew...more
The United States had imposed layers of sanctions on Syria since deeming it a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1979. The U.S. Treasury imposed most sanctions during the Iraq War and the Syrian Civil War. In December 2024, Hay’at...more
Key Takeaways: - Executive Order 14312 revokes the six executive orders that formed the foundation of the Syrian Sanctions Program, terminates the national emergency underlying those executive orders and waives and relaxes...more
Welcome to the July 2025 issue of “As the (Customs and Trade) World Turns,” our monthly newsletter where we compile essential updates from the customs and trade world over the past month. We bring you the most recent and...more