Sanctions Tracker

01The Latest Actions

Every name the Treasury has added to or removed from the Specially Designated Nationals list in its most recent publications, newest first. OFAC often publishes several times a week, and big packages aimed at one country or network can add hundreds of names in a day.

Program codes are OFAC's own tags, for example RUSSIA-EO14024 for the main Russia program and SDGT for global terrorism. Section 04 groups them into plain-English themes.

02Additions and Removals, Month by Month

Names added to and removed from the list in each month since September 2022, when OFAC began publishing its daily change files. Removals are a small fraction of additions, which is why the list keeps growing: 1,771 names were added in the last 12 months and 515 removed.

The biggest single days

03The List by Year Added

Every name on today's list, by the year it was added. Names that have since been removed are not counted here, so older years look smaller than they were at the time. Even so, the list has never grown faster than it has since 2022.

04What the Sanctions Target

OFAC runs dozens of sanctions programs, each based on an executive order or a law. Grouped into themes, this is what the list is aimed at. A name can fall under more than one program, so the themes add up to more than the total.

The 25 largest programs

05Where the Sanctioned Are

People and companies on the list by country, based on the first address OFAC gives or, for people with no address, their nationality. Ships and aircraft are counted separately in section 06. About 90% of the people and companies on the list are covered by the 60 countries tracked here.

06Ships and Aircraft

The list names 1,568 ships, 222 of them added in the last 12 months, 794 of them tankers of one kind or another, many from the so-called shadow fleets that carry sanctioned Iranian and Russian oil. Many sail under flags of convenience: the flag is where a ship is registered, not who owns it, and sanctioned tankers often change flag and name. For the shipping lanes these fleets use, see the Shipping Chokepoint Monitor.

342 aircraft are on the list as well, from business jets to the airliners and cargo planes of sanctioned airlines. The largest operators listed are Iran Air (67), MAHAN AIR (47), Mahan Air (19), Air Koryo (16), Caspian Air (9).

07Search the List

Type a name, company, ship, country, program tag or kind of ship (for example, crude oil tanker). The search covers every name on the current SDN list and the aliases OFAC records for them.

This page is a guide, not a compliance tool. Banks and businesses screening names should use OFAC's own Sanctions List Search.

08How the SDN List Works

The Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons list is kept by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), part of the U.S. Treasury. Any property of a listed person or company that is in the United States, or in the hands of a U.S. person, is frozen, and Americans are generally barred from doing business with them. Companies that are 50% or more owned by listed persons are blocked too, even when they are not named on the list.

Names are added under sanctions programs set up by presidential executive orders or by laws passed by Congress, covering countries such as Russia, Iran and North Korea and activities such as terrorism, drug trafficking, cyber crime and human rights abuse. Names come off the list when OFAC agrees to a petition for removal, when a program is ended, or when a listed person dies or a company dissolves. Under some programs, including those on Iran and Russia, the reach goes beyond U.S. borders: foreign banks and companies that deal with listed names can themselves be sanctioned or cut off from the U.S. financial system, which is why the list shapes trade around the world.

09Method and Sources

The current list comes from OFAC's enhanced SDN file, which records the date each name was added. The month-by-month additions and removals come from the daily change files OFAC has published since September 22, 2022; this page reads every one. Counts cover the SDN list only, not OFAC's separate non-SDN lists. Countries come from each entry's first listed address, or nationality for people with no address. Themes are DaveManuel.com's grouping of OFAC's program tags. The page updates every day.

• OFAC Sanctions List Service: SDN List (enhanced XML)
• OFAC: Archive of published delta (change) files
• OFAC: Program tag definitions
• OFAC: Frequently asked questions and 31 CFR 501.807 (removal from the list)

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