Cuban Assets Control Regulations
Rule published January 16, 2015 · 80 FR 2291
- Document number
- FR Doc. 2015-00632
- Type
- Rule
- Published
- January 16, 2015
- Citation
- 80 FR 2291 (pages 2,291–2,302)
- Action
- Final rule.
- Effective
- January 16, 2015
- Dates
- Effective: January 16, 2015.
- Official sources
- PDF (govinfo.gov) · federalregister.gov
Summary
The Federal Register's summaryThe Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is amending the Cuban Assets Control Regulations to implement policy changes announced by the President on December 17, 2014 to further engage and empower the Cuban people. These amendments facilitate travel to Cuba for authorized purposes, facilitate the provision by travel agents and airlines of authorized travel services and the forwarding by certain entities of authorized remittances, raise the limit on certain categories of remittances to Cuba, allow U.S. financial institutions to open correspondent accounts at Cuban financial institutions to facilitate the processing of authorized transactions, authorize certain transactions with Cuban nationals located outside of Cuba, and allow a number of other activities related to, among other areas, telecommunications, financial services, trade, and shipping. These amendments also implement certain technical and conforming changes.
Regulations cited
- 31 CFR part 515 (today: Cuban Assets Control Regulations) · Other documents citing it · eCFR today
OFAC has reused some part numbers, so today's heading can name a different regulation from the one this document concerned.
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