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Case No. CU-2022-895293-1
Xael Charters, Inc.
c/o [***]
1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
Attn: [***], Esq.
Dear Ms. [***]:
This letter responds to your request dated March 15, 2022, and further communications on June 27, 2022, to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), on behalf of Xael Charters, Inc. d/b/a Xael Travel Services, a U.S.-based travel and charter service provider headquartered in Miami, Florida (the Applicant), requesting a specific license, to engage in travel-related transactions in connection with the provision of travel services and air carrier services authorized by OFAC general licenses available at 31 C.F.R. section 572, as well as to participate in professional meetings to support authorized travel services and air carrier services (the Application). The Application states such a specific license would allow Xael...
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1) Compare Case No. CU-2015-319004-1, a similar letter discussing the scope of the carrier services GL and transactions ordinarily incident thereto. Here, the applicant is a “U.S.-based travel and charter service provider headquartered in Miami”. 515.572 authorizes “[p]ersons subject to U.S. jurisdiction…to provide carrier services to, from, or within Cuba in connection with travel or transportation, directly or indirectly, between the United States and Cuba of persons, baggage, or cargo authorized pursuant to” the CACR, and 515.421 authorizes all transactions ordinarily incident to licensed transactions. Separately, 515.564 authorizes travel-related transactions “directly incident to attendance at, or organization of, professional meetings or conferences in Cuba” and 515.533 authorizes “transactions ordinarily incident to the exportation of items from the United States, or the reexportation of items from a third country, to...