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) OFAC characterizes the “Tell Minis lustre pottery bowl,” as “Syrian-origin artwork,” and accordingly cites to the informational materials exemption, which covers “artworks”. This is the only item in the Research System acknowledging a “pottery bowl” (or any type of ceramic) as “artwork”. Note that 542.307 states that “[t]o be considered information or informational materials, artworks must be classified under chapter subheading 9701, 9702, or 9703 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States,” and while “Ceramic Products” normally fall in chapter 69 of the USHTS, chapter 69 “does not cover… [a]rticles of chapter 97 (for example, works of art).” See https://www.usitc.gov/publications/docs/tata/hts/bychapter/1000c69.pdf.
However, notwithstanding that the item meets the definition of “Information or informational materials,” OFAC says that “it does not appear that a person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to section 542.201(a) of...