The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued a final rule to remove the International Criminal Court-Related Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 520, from the Code of Federal Regulations. OFAC is taking this action after the national emergency upon which these sanctions were based was terminated by President Biden
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President Biden Terminates U.S. Sanctions Related to the International Criminal Court
By Scott E. Diamond** on
On April 2, 2021, President Joseph Biden issued an Executive Order terminating a previously declared national emergency and related sanctions against certain persons involved with the International Criminal Court (ICC). In June 2020, President Trump issued Executive Order 13928 declaring a national emergency due to the ICC’s “illegitimate assertions of jurisdiction over personnel of the…
OFAC Issues International Criminal Court-Related Sanctions Regulations; Lawsuit Seeks to Declare Executive Order and Regulations Unconstitutional
By Scott E. Diamond** on
In a series of actions this week, the Department of the Treasury moved to implement regulations to enforce sanctions related to actions of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Almost immediately, however, President Trump’s executive order and the regulations were challenged in court.
ICC-Related Executive Order and Regulations
On June 11, 2020, President Trump issued Executive…
After CIT Blocks President Trump’s IEEPA Tariffs, CAFC Stays Order Pending Review of the CIT’s Judgment and Injunction
On May 29, 2025, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) stayed the decision of the Court of International Trade (CIT) from the previous day, which had vacated both tranches of President Donald Trump’s tariffs implemented under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) (50 U.S.C. § 1701 et seq.). President…
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After U.S. Supreme Court Invalidates IEEPA Tariffs, Trump Administration Turns to Other Options – What Importers Need to Know
On Thursday, February 26, partners David Schwartz and Samir Varma hosted a webinar to examine the IEEPA decision and its broader implications in greater detail.