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Washington – August 9, 2018: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that the firm has been recognized as “highly commended” in the “Sanctions Law Firm of the Year, USA” category by WorldECR, a leading international journal covering export controls and sanctions. The publication’s annual “WorldECR Awards” honors firms for their “outstanding work, vision, best practice, commercial benefit to the company, and contribution to international security, of organizations and individuals working in the fields of export control and sanctions compliance and non-proliferation.”

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On August 28, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a final rule that modifies the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to reduce the number of export control restrictions on Syria, in alignment with Executive Order 14312, Providing For The Revocation of Syria Sanctions. The key adjustments made by this rule include the addition of new or expanded license exception eligibility for exports and reexports to Syria (which significantly broadens the number of items that can be exported or reexported to Syria) and the adoption of more permissive license review policies for exports and reexports to Syria.