Understanding North Korea sanctions: U.S. Sanctions Regulations & General Licenses

Introduction

Background

U.N. Security Council sanctions resolutions

U.S. sanctions laws

U.S. sanctions Executive Orders

U.S. sanctions regulations & general licenses

  • 15 C.F.R. Part 734 – Export Administration Regulations.
  • 15 C.F.R. Part 738 – Commerce Control List overview and country chart.
  • 15 C.F.R. Part 774 – Commerce Control List — items requiring a license for export.
  • 15 C.F.R. Part 746 – Commerce Department export sanctions regulations applicable to North Korea and other states. See Supplement 1 for the U.S. government’s list of luxury goods.
  • 19 C.F.R. 12.42 – Procedure for petitioning the Commissioner of Customs to deny entry to U.S. ports of goods made with convict, forced, or indentured labor.
  • 31 C.F.R. Part 510 – The Treasury Department’s OFAC regulations. The regulations synthesize, codify, and implement the statutes and executive orders sanctioning a specific target or category of targets. As of October 2016, these relatively weak regulations were overdue to be updated, to reflect the enactment of the NKSPEA and the promulgation of Executive Order 13722.
  • General licenses create exemptions to the sanctions regulations for certain humanitarian, cultural, and other purposes.

Other significant U.S. statutes

Third-country sanctions authorities