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Can commercial actors, humanitarian groups, and other organizations continue to import commercial goods, including food and humanitarian supplies, into Yemen?
Yes. Yemen is not subject to broad, jurisdiction-based sanctions. As a result, NGOs, international organizations, and commercial businesses are not generally prohibited from importing humanitarian supplies into the country. As described above, the NGO general license at GTSR section 594.520 authorizes all transactions that may otherwise be prohibited in support of specified NGO non-commercial, humanitarian-related activities, subject to certain conditions. General License 26 authorizes certain transactions involving Ansarallah ordinarily incident and necessary to operations, import or export of goods, or transit of passengers through, ports and airports in Yemen. Additionally, General License 22 authorizes certain transactions involving Ansarallah that are ordinarily incident and necessary to the provision (including sale) of certain agricultural commodities, medicine, and medical devices to persons in Yemen, or to persons in third countries...
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1) Note Common to All 2-16-24 "Humanitarian Assistance" (Yemen) Guidance Entries
On 2-16-24, OFAC issued its Guidance for the Provision of Humanitarian-Related Assistance and Critical Commodities to the Yemeni People.
Because OFAC addresses a multitude of authorities in the guidance, and does so in a way that has implications for the scope and operation of such authorities beyond the four corners of the guidance document, we have categorized each of the questions as separate Research System entries. The questions and associated Research System links are as follows:
Guidance for the Provision of Humanitarian-Related Assistance and Critical Commodities to the Yemeni People - Q # 1
Guidance for the Provision of Humanitarian-Related Assistance and Critical Commodities to the Yemeni People - Q # 2
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