The EU’s 21st sanctions package against Russia and parallel tightening of sanctions on Belarus was adopted on 23 July 2026 and entered into force immediately. It is the largest EU sanctions round in four years, adding 218 new listings (170 entities and 48 individuals) and bringing the total number of EU Russia-related designations to nearly 3,000. The package is designed to hit Russia’s financial system, energy revenues, military-industrial base, and sanctions-evasion networks, while aligning Belarus more closely with the Russia sanctions regime.

Since the EU has published an update to her sanctions on Burundi on 23 September 2025 (Decision 2025/1941 - Regulation 2025/1940), which removes the last entry for Burundi, the sanctions risk associated to Burundi can be changed to low. The EU still has the sanctions in place without targeting anyone. the UN, UK and US have no specific sanctions in place against Burundi.

On May 1st, 2026, the US issued a new Executive Order (EO-14404), which creates new sanctions against Cuba, which consist of:
a) blocking sanctions for designated persons in specific sectors of the Cuban economy (1) energy; 2) defense and related materiel; 3) metals and mining; 4) financial services; and 5) security);
b) a travel ban for designated persons, and;
c) prohibitions for Foreign Financial Institutions who conduct or facilitate significant transactions in relation to the new EO.

Today the EU published an update to the EU sanctions in relation to Syria.

On 23 October 2025 the EU published the 19th package of the EU sanctions against Belarus, Russia and the occupied regions of the Ukraine. In general, we did not see new types of sanctions imposed, mostly existing sanctions were expanded or extended.

Today the Eu published the 16th package of sanctions in reaction to the invasion of the Ukraine by the Russian federation. We have noticed that beside some new measures, also the exportbans, importbans, transit bans en no-Russia/No-Belarus clauses have changed as several goods annexes with HS codes were replaced.

Since the UN did not decide on a prolongation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (so there could be no veto by Russia) regarding Iran, the EU re-imposed her sanctions against Iran. The US already withdrew from the pact in 2018 and we expect the UK and other countries to publish similar re-imposing actions soon.

When you are a US person or are subject to US sanctions, if you have blocked and reported property due to mistaken identity or typographical or similar errors, you may unblock such property and file an unblocking report with OFAC consistent with the procedures described in 31 CFR 501.603(b)(3).