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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Please click "Apply Text String Filters" again after clicking the "Close" button immediately below.
1) Out of context it appears slightly odd that OFAC characterized this activity as an "export" of a service to Iran rather than an "import," but the context of the application is the Government surveying people in connection with broadcasting that it planned to do in Iran. In the context of something like marketing research, a survey would more likely be characterized as an "import" of a service "560.201."
2) The guidance clarifies, as others have, that one may "export" a service to a country even where one receives no remuneration for (or even pays for) that service, and where the service is non-economic in character.
3) Since the release of this guidance, at least one U.S. person, Pew Research Center, has conducted surveys in Iran [1]. According to Pew,
"Surveying in Iran presents special challenges, owing in part to...