Cite and reuse
This site's text and data compilations are licensed CC BY 4.0. This page says how to cite it, which machine-readable files and feeds exist, and which parts of the data belong to their original publishers.
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CC BY 4.0
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Citing a page
Each technique, case, learn page and note ends with a Cite this page block that gives ready-made APA, Chicago and BibTeX entries. They use the page's review date, not a publication date, because pages are revised in place and the corrections log records what changed.
To attribute the site itself: Sanctions Evasion Reference, https://sanctionsevasion.org, CC BY 4.0.
Files and feeds
Everything below is static, needs no key, and is rebuilt when the site is.
- Red-flag indicator library, spreadsheet
- Red-flag indicator library, with source quotes
- OFAC civil penalties and findings of violation since 2009
- OFSI monetary penalties and disclosures
- OFAC Recent Actions, tagged by programme
- The glossary, with stable definitions
- The index behind the site search
- Enforcement cases
- Notes and data analyses
- Designations feed
- A plain-text map of the site for language models
The CSV files quote every field, follow RFC 4180 and name their columns in the first row. The
/api/ paths allow cross-origin requests. Five rows of the OFAC file are findings
of violation, which OFAC lists with no amount, so they show 0.
What is and is not covered by the licence
The licence covers this site's own writing and the way its datasets are compiled. It does not cover the documents they point to. Treasury and Commerce documents are US government works. OFSI and gov.uk material is published under the Open Government Licence. The UN Comtrade figures are published under UN terms that allow non-commercial use with attribution, and the sources page records how this site handles that. If you redistribute the trade figures, check those terms yourself.
Reporting an error
If a figure or a quotation is wrong, write to us. Corrections are made on the page and listed in the log, including the ones we find ourselves.
Common questions
Can I reuse text from this site?
Yes. Site text and the data compilations are CC BY 4.0: copy, adapt and republish, including commercially, with attribution and a link. Quotations from the cited documents remain the property of their publishers.
How should I cite a page?
Every page with a review date carries a Cite this page block with APA, Chicago and BibTeX entries built from that date. For a dataset, cite the page it is published on and give the date you downloaded it.
Is the underlying data mine to reuse?
Only the compilation is. Government lists and notices are the publishers' own, most in the public domain or under the UK Open Government Licence. UN Comtrade data has its own terms, described on the sources page.