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STATEMENTS & REMARKS
Statement of the G7 and Australia on Actions Taken to Enforce Price Caps for Seaborne Russian-Origin Oil and Petroleum Products
October 12, 2023
Berlin, Brussels, Canberra, London, Ottawa, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Washington
1. We, the members of the Price Cap Coalition—Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States—established price caps on seaborne Russian oil as outlined in the G7 Finance Ministers Statement on 2 September 2022, the Price Cap Coalition (“Coalition”) Statement on 2 December 2022, and the Coalition Statement on 4 February 2023.
2. The price cap policy supports stability in global oil markets by allowing our service providers to continue to participate in shipments of Russian-origin crude oil and petroleum products to other countries, if prices do not exceed the caps....
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1) Read in conjunction with Statement of the G7 and Australia on Actions Taken to Enforce Price Caps for Seaborne Russian-Origin Oil and Petroleum Products and Treasury Sanctions Entities for Transporting Oil Sold Above the Coalition Price Cap to Restrict Russia’s War Machine, both issued on the same day as this advisory.
As is typical for “advisories” generally, this document does not do much in the way of providing guidance on the scope of substantive provisions, but it does appear to set out a number of due diligence expectations the meeting of which are likely to impact eligibility for the “safe harbor” described at section III of OFAC Guidance on Implementation of the Price Cap Policy for Crude Oil and Petroleum Products of Russian Federation Origin (February 3, 2023). This statement, albeit one issued by multiple...