New U.K. office eyeing 2024 to enforce trade sanctions
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Kyle Brasseur2023-12-13T17:19:00
The U.K. government is set to establish a new agency to enforce trade sanctions and provide compliance guidance to businesses regarding the country’s sanctions regimes.
The Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) is expected to be ready to enforce trade sanctions in 2024, said U.K. Industry and Economic Security Minister Nusrat Ghani in a speech delivered Monday.
“The office will build up our trade sanctions capability and make sure our sanctions regimes are as impactful as possible,” she said. “It will also crack down on companies that breach trade sanctions and so help to facilitate warmongers and tyrants to cling to power.”
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