Hi –

All the Practitioners and Plain Language Guides are now available on the Resources pages. I’ve also added links to the US Export Controls Guides on the main Resources page – since it cuts across multiple regulators, it didn’t really fit into the US Resources page, which is AI created and maintained.

Also, all the Resources pages have been refreshed.

And the Industry Events Calendar now reflects all events for the next 6 months.

To be honest, the amount of work I need to do to keep these up to date is so minor (comparatively) means I can do this every 4-8 weeks so the content doesn’t get too staie. Mind you, there is always going to be little glitches in the AI processing – the important thing is to get the errors or other failings addressed, and to update the master prompts appropriately.

For example, in this last pass to make my first major update pass on the events calendar, I found that Claude was inferring URLs and not directly fetching them to confirm they work. That led to some broken links … and when I tried to address it, we found some sites where fetching was blocked by the site. Claude made some suggestions about how to address these failings, and now the spreadsheet Claude produces now has a new sheet that lists events it had errors in fetching but which I could try fetching myself (which I successfully did, actually).

Now, if it could only write to the Google Calendar… that would save me a lot of time and effort…. a guy can dream, can’t I?

Hi –

The Plain Language Guides and Practitioners Guides pages have been expanded to include the OFAC North Korean guides, as well as the thematic guides to OFAC and Canadian sanctions.

I’ve got one more in the hopper I will add after I post the guides later this week – US export control.

For my readers in the US, enjoy the Independence Day holiday this week – better to say Independence Day since the “observed” holiday, the one we get the day off from work, is on Friday, July 3rd this year because we’re not giving up our paid day off without a fight, am I right?

Hi –

Working on the Russia Sanctions Guides, I realized I ought to add CAATSA to the Iran Sanctions Guides… so I did. Not going to waste time and space with extra posts, but the Guides on the Plain Language Guides and Practitioners Guides have been replaced with the updated versions. And, yes, both in English and Farsi.

Will I do a Guide for all the sanctions programs? Probably not, because the complexity just isn’t there. I’ll probably do North Korea next and then I might call it a day. Even the counter-terror and counter-narcotics programs aren’t that complicated, so what’d be the value to you, the reader?

We shall see…