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Case No. SY-2020-370755-1
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Noble House Spice Inc.
999 Andersen Drive
Suite 140
San Rafael, California 94901
Dear Mr. [ ]:
This responds to your request dated November 29, 2020 (the “Application”), on behalf of Noble House Spice Inc., to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), requesting authorization to import up to 1000 kilograms of Aleppo Pepper from Aleppo, Syria to Long Beach Port, California via DHL Global Forwarding. You indicate in the Application that the shipment will travel to Bruit*, Lebanon before being shipped to the United States.
The Syrian Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 542 (SySR), block all property and interests in property that are in or come within the United States, or that are in or come within the possession or control of any U.S. person, including any foreign branch, of the Government of Syria and of certain other...
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1) The SySR contain no broad prohibition on the importation of goods or services from Syria, but as a practical matter, the importation of goods from Syria entails the exportation of services, e.g. “financial services” in the form of payments, and for that reason 542.530 authorizes “[a]ll transactions otherwise prohibited by §542.207 that are ordinarily incident to an importation into the United States from Syria, directly or indirectly, of goods technology, or services, are authorized, provided the importation is not from or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, a person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to §542.201(a).” Of note the “Government of Syria” is blocked pursuant to 542.201, and at the time of the request for guidance and OFAC’s response, Aleppo was controlled by the Government of Syria (see