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Trade Sanctions:

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's listing of documents and resources on trade and economic sanctions.

http://www.fas.usda.gov/itp/sanctions.html

Ireland's Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment document on countries subject to the European Union/United Nations sanctions and embargoes.

http://www.entemp.ie/export/trade.htm

USA*ENGAGE Coalition

A coalition representing Americans from all regions, sectors and segments of the US concerned about the proliferation of unilateral foreign policy sanctions at the federal, state, and local level.

http://www.usaengage.org/

USDOC - Denied Persons List

Available in two formats (ASCII or HTML), the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security list of Persons and companies denied exporting privileges.

http://www.bis.doc.gov/DPL/Default.shtm

DTI - Notice to Exporters

The UK Department of Trade and Industry's notice of sanctions for UK exporters.

http://www.dti.gov.uk/

Cato Institute - Unilateral Sanctions

The Center for Trade Policy listing of articles, books and studies regarding U.S. trade sanctions.

http://www.freetrade.org/issues/sanctions.html

U.S. Treasury - Office of Foreign Assets Control

The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, and those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/

Sanctions and Security Project

The Sanctions and Security Project is an integral part of the Kroc Institute/Fourth Freedom Forum joint effort to explore non-military means of enforcing international norms.

http://www3.nd.edu/%7Ekrocinst/research/econsanc.html

GlobalPolicy.org - Sanctions

The Global Policy Organization looks at the debate on sanctions and includes many documents, including sanctions on specific countries, proposing ways to make sanctions more effective, better "targeted," and more humane.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/sanction/theindex.htm

UN - Use of Sanctions under the UN Charter

The Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General's listing of past and present sanctions under Chapter VII of the UN Charter. Includes sanctions against Afghanistan, Angola, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Haiti, Iraq, Liberia, Libya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Rhodesia, Sudan and the former Yugoslavia.

http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sanction.htm

Section 301 (Retaliation List) Information

Timely alerts concerning retaliatory actions taken by the United States Trade Representative (USTR) under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act (USA).

http://tcc.export.gov/Report_a_Barrier/index.asp