The Canada government issued the following trade-related notices as of Aug. 10 (some may also be given separate headlines):

Democratic and Republican senators called on the State Department to do more to pressure the Nicolas Maduro regime in Venezuela, saying the U.S.’s approach, which they called ineffective, should include more multilateral support and stronger sanctions against Maduro’s allies. Several senators said they would back legislation to grant the administration more sanctions powers.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned two “financial facilitators” for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria for helping to fund terrorism, OFAC said July 28. The designations target Faruq Hamud in Syria and ‘Adnan Amin Muhammad al-Rawi in Turkey.

A Pennsylvania cookware coating manufacturer was fined about $824,000 after its foreign subsidiaries violated U.S. sanctions against Iran, the Office of Foreign Assets Control said in a July 28 notice. OFAC said Whitford Worldwide Company subsidiaries in Italy and Turkey illegally exported coatings to Iran, and U.S. company employees oversaw the transactions.

The State Department updated its guidance for the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act to address sanctions related to Russian energy export pipelines (see 2007150021), especially Nord Stream 2 and the second line of TurkStream, a notice released July 22 said. The agency deleted portions of the guidance that limited the focus of the act’s sanctions authorities to Russian pipeline projects for which a contract was signed on or after Aug. 2, 2017, the notice said. The agency also clarified that the “focus of implementation” will include Russian pipeline projects, such as Nord Stream 2, a pipeline from Russia to Europe, and the second line of TurkStream, from Russia to Turkey.

A Tennessee resident who is a naturalized U.S. citizen and also an Iranian citizen was sentenced to 46 months in prison for smuggling more than $100,000 worth of items from the U.S. to Iran, the Justice Department said July 16. Aiden Davidson, manager of New Hampshire-based Golden Gate International, pleaded guilty in March (see 2003030055) to being involved in at least 10 exports of containers of industrial goods and equipment to Iran, which included motors, pumps and valves, the Justice Department said. Documents associated with the shipments falsely listed a business in Turkey as the ultimate consignee. Davidson received about $1 million in wire transfers for the exports between 2014 and 2017. He was arrested in September 2018.

The United Kingdom’s Department for International Trade on June 29 updated its guidance on existing trade agreements with non-European Union countries. The guidance now reflects that the U.K. has begun trade negotiations with Turkey and Vietnam. Turkey is part of the EU Customs Union, so any deal between the U.K. and the EU will affect the U.K.’s trading relationship with Turkey, the guidance said.

Turkey plans to ban production and imports of 16 active substances found in plant protection products, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service said in a June 19 report. The import ban, which will take effect for each of the substances over a “transitional period” from June 30 through Dec. 31, will impact difenacoum, fenamidone, triadimenol, chlorothalonil and other substances because of their harmful effects on humans and the environment, the report said. The move is aimed at harmonizing Turkish regulations with European Union rules.

The government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices as of June 19 (note that some may also be given separate headlines):

The government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices as of June 12 (note that some may also be given separate headlines):