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Treasury licenses imports of Russian diesel into the U.S. until April 2027
On 9 October 2026 the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued Russia-related General License 135. It authorizes transactions tied to the sale, delivery, offloading and importation, including into the United States, of diesel fuel of Russian origin that sanctions rules would otherwise bar, until 12:01 a.m. EDT on 7 April 2027. It is a time-limited licence, not a lifting of sanctions: no one was removed from the sanctions list, and Russia’s central bank, sovereign wealth fund and finance ministry remain shut out of U.S. accounts under it.
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