Ed. Note: if you’re new to TURBOFAC, please take note that the text string filtration function generally shouldn’t be used for terms such as “ordinarily resident,” “causing” or “new debt”. For research on the meaning of words and phrases such as those, i.e. terms central to the key legal issues in sanctions law that appear on a cross-programmatic basis, you’re typically better off locating and checking the appropriate box in the “Key Legal Issues” search category, which will limit the results to those that have been manually assessed as being relevant for the interpretation of the terms at issue.
Try typing your search term (“ordinarily resident,” “new debt,” or something else) in the “Find a Search Filter” box at the top of the page, and the corresponding “Key Legal Issues” check box will pop up instantly, if one exists. Once you check the box (e.g. “new debt,” with ~55 results), you can always use the text string filtration function to further refine your search (e.g. by typing “invoice” and narrowing the ~55 results to ~10).
Note in addition that the same applies to text string searches such as “14071” (if you’re looking for items related to EO 14071). By typing “14071” in the “Find a Search Filter” field up top, you will be able to instantly narrow the results down to items manually assessed as relating to EO 14071. Ditto terms such as “515.204” or “Iran General License G” (try the “Discrete Legal Provision” search category).
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1) When this GL was issued, there was a comprehensive embargo targeting the country of Sudan, and no sanctions targeting South Sudan. OFAC issued this GL, authorizing "[a]ctivities relating to the petroleum and petrochemical industries in the Republic of South Sudan," to authorize transactions involving Sudan that were sufficiently "relating to the petroleum and petrochemical industries in the Republic of South Sudan" to qualify for the GL.
Up through late 2023, this GL and OFAC's interpretations thereof did not appear to have much ongoing interpretive import, Venezuela General License 44 (October 18, 2023) authorizes certain "transactions...that are related to oil or gas sector operations in Venezuela," so there seems to be a parallelism between the two GLs as it relates to the "relating/related to" and "in" elements of the GLs.
More specifically, as it relates to the Venezuela GL, there...