Home | Office of Foreign Assets Control Mission The Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") of the US Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries and regimes, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and other
About OFAC - Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC is the successor to the Office of Foreign Funds Control (the "FFC''), which was established at the advent of World War II following the German invasion of Norway in 1940 The FFC program was administered by the Secretary of the Treasury throughout the war
Basic Information on OFAC and Sanctions - Office of Foreign Assets Control The U S Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions against targeted foreign jurisdictions and regimes, as well as individuals and entities engaging in harmful activity, such as terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, weapons of mass destruction proliferators, and other malign actors, in response to
Sanctions List Search Tool | Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC's Sanctions List Search tool employs fuzzy logic on its name search field to look for potential matches on the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List and on its Non-SDN Consolidated Sanctions List
Sanctions Programs and Country Information OFAC administers a number of different sanctions programs The sanctions can be either comprehensive or selective, using the blocking of assets and trade restrictions to accomplish foreign policy and national security goals Where is OFAC's country list? Archive of Inactive Sanctions Pages
OFAC Consolidated Frequently Asked Questions The U S Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions against targeted foreign jurisdictions and regimes, as well as individuals and entities engaging in harmful activity, such as terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, weapons of mass destruction proliferators, and other malign actors, in response to
Sanctions List Service | Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC's SLS also contains a new feature: the Customize Sanctions Dataset tool, allowing for users to create custom datasets based upon their selection of certain Sanctions lists and or Sanctions programs Additionally, SLS now includes OFAC's Sanctions List Search application
Frequently Asked Questions | Office of Foreign Assets Control 401 OFAC’s 50 Percent Rule states that the property and interests in property of entities directly or indirectly owned 50 percent or more in the aggregate by one or more blocked persons are considered blocked How does OFAC interpret indirect ownership as it relates to certain complex ownership structures?