Case No. NK-93087
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Mystic Stamp Company
9700 Mill Street
Camden, NY l 3 316
Dear []
This is in response to your letter dated June 2009 (the "Application"), to the Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") requesting permission to import unused postage stamps from the Korea Stamp Corporation in North Korea.
OFAC is required to conduct case-by-case authorization of North Korean imports in order to ensure compliance with provisions of the Anns Export Control Act, 22 U.S.C. § 2751 et seq. (the "AECA"). Persons wishing to import goods from North Korea must submit information and receive prior authorization to import North Korean-origin goods.
Pursuant to your AppJication, OFAC hereby authorizes Mystic Stamp Company to import unused postage stamps from the Korea Stamp Corporation in North Korea. This...
[Update - read in conjunction with Case No. MUL-2014-306809-1 and comments thereto]
1) See native PDF file for application and other correspondence, and comments to Case No. NK-93078 concerning the quirky status of the status of sanctions against North Korea at the time this letter was drafted.
In short, there was no import ban against North Korea in 2010, but OFAC retained jurisdiction under the sanctions regulations previously applicable to North Korea to ensure that imports were not related to proliferation activities (500.586(b)(2) (2008)). OFAC's letter is essentially a determination that the stamps and the "Korea Stamp Corporation" were not related to covered weapons proliferation. In April 2011, Sec 1. of Executive Order 13570 imposed a wholesale import ban on North Korea. Hence the denial to import the stamps from 2012. That determination was made without respect to the proliferation-specific concerns of...