Syrian Arab Republic: Export Controls & Trade & Investment Sanctions

As 2025 comes to an end, one theme defines the global compliance landscape: volatility. Over the past twelve months, sanctions and export control regimes have shifted quickly as the second Trump...

Over nine months since the ouster of autocratic President Bashar al-Assad, Syria is still in the early days of a shaky stabilization process.

Building on prior relief of sanctions and other restrictive trade measures earlier this year (as described in K2 Integrity alerts dated 15 May and 09 June 2025), on 30 June 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump...

On June 4, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued the Syria-Related Sanctions Regulations (SRSR). Not to be confused with the pre-existing Syrian

Effective today, Canada has taken additional steps to impose economic sanctions against Syria by imposing a ban on financial services and targeting transactions involving the Central Bank of Syria as well as additional listed individuals.

As we mentioned in our previous update published on 2nd September (link) additional entities were added to the European Union's asset freeze list by Council Regulation (EU) 843/2011 on 24 August 2011, and at a subsequent meeting of EU foreign ministers in Poland on the 1 September 2011 further sanctions were agreed targeting Syrian's oil exports.