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Emily Mikes

Emily focuses on export controls, economic sanctions and related government investigations. She advises clients in a wide array of industries on the specifics of trade regulations, analyzing the effects of rules and restrictions on businesses as they import and export goods and materials.

On December 16, 2022, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) published a rule adding 35 entities from China and one entity from Japan to the Entity List for supporting China’s military modernization efforts, human rights violations, and risk of diversion. These designations follow BIS’s advanced computing and semiconductor export controls unveiled

On December 15, 2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) added 18 entities in Russia’s financial services sector to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (“SDN List”). The US State Department concurrently designated Vladimir Potanin, one of the richest men in Russia.

OFAC designated Public Joint Stock Company Rosbank (“Rosbank”), a bank

BIS Adds 24 New Entities and Removes One from Entity List

On December 8, 2022, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued a notice in the Federal Register adding 24 entities under 26 entries and removing one entity from the Entity List. The entities are from Latvia, Pakistan, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland