The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), with the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Coast Guard, issued an advisory to alert persons globally to deceptive shipping practices used by North Korea to evade sanctions. These practices may create significant sanctions risk for parties involved in the shipping industry, including insurers, flag registries, shipping companies, and financial institutions. Parties subject to U.S. and/or United Nations (UN) sanctions should be aware of these practices in order to implement appropriate controls to ensure compliance with their legal requirements.

You can read the news release on the sanctions package here.

You can read the global shipping advisory issued by OFAC here.

The U.S. Coast Guard, in coordination with the Department of State, has published a list of vessels that are owned or operated by North Korea or a North Korean person which will be denied entry to all U.S. ports. This list is separate from that maintained by OFAC or described in Annex 2 of the global shipping advisory. The link to that list is located at http://www.nvmc.uscg.gov/CAATSA.aspx. For questions regarding the list, please call or e-mail the Coast Guard’s Headquarters Foreign & Offshore Vessel Compliance Division, 202-372-1232, portstatecontrol@uscg.mil.

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