House Passes Spending Package With Sanctions, Export Control Funding
The House March 9 passed a government funding bill, including an emergency Ukraine-related aid package for certain U.S. export control and sanctions work.
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The bill would allocate $141 million for the Bureau of Industry and Security, an $8 million increase from last year, including “necessary expenses for export administration and national security activities.” The funding would go toward BIS export enforcement field activities in the U.S. and abroad, motor vehicles for enforcement officers and other expenses. The bill’s supplemental Ukraine-related funding includes an additional $22.1 million in BIS funding for “global trade and export ramifications of the conflict in Ukraine.”
The bill also would allocate $195 million for the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, the Treasury agency that oversees sanctions work, an increase of $20 million from last year. The supplemental Ukraine package would give TFI an additional $25 million for staff and salaries to work on “policy development, sanctions targeting, economic analysis, intelligence, operations and support.”
DOJ also would receive funding for sanctions-related work under the Ukraine aide package, including $5 million for the agency’s Ukraine Task Force to prosecute sanctions violators and $1.1 million for the National Security Division to support export control, sanctions and cyber cases related to Russia. The FBI would also receive $43.6 million, a portion of which would help establish a Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative to “focus on violations of Russian sanctions.”
The Senate hopes to vote on the package before the end of the week, when government funding lapses.