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) Compare Case No. DPRK2-2018-356417-1. Here, as there, OFAC confirms that “books” are generally exempt as “information or informational materials,” though “toys” are not. The letter as notable as a rare one issued to an Iranian exporter. See applicants website at https://www.bookcity.org/en/about-us.
* In various guidance letters covering a variety of informational materials-related contexts (this is one of them), OFAC has made some version of the following statement: “transactions related to the importation from any country and the exportation to any country of information or informational materials, as defined in section 560.315 of the ITSR, whether commercial or otherwise, regardless of format or medium of transmission, are exempt from the prohibitions contained in the ITSR.” “Related to” is often interpreted broadly by OFAC, i.e. more...