AL-HAMMADI TRADING, SHIPPING, AND CLEARANCE CO., LTD.
Aliases
NASR AL-HAMMADI SHIPPING AND CUSTOMS CLEARANCE AND PUBLIC TRADE COMPANY
AL-NASR COMPANY FOR GENERAL TRADING
NIMEX
Address
Yiwu Logistics Center, 4th Floor, 498 Chemical Road, Yiwu, Zhejiang, China
Official reason
Al-Hammadi Trading, Shipping, and Clearance Co., Ltd. (Al-Hammadi Company) is a China-based, Houthi-associated logistics company that has procured and shipped dual-use components from China in support of the Houthis’ military efforts. Representatives of Al-Hammadi Company collaborate with other Houthi operatives located in China. China-based Yemeni national Nasr Hussein Al-Hammadi (Al-Hammadi) owns Al-Hammadi Company, which he uses to facilitate the acquisition and shipment of dual-use components from China to Yemen in support of the Houthis. Guangzhou Yakai International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Nahari Trading Co., Ltd., Hisham Abdulwasea Hael Mohammed Al-Nahari, Al-Hammadi Trading, Shipping, and Clearance Co., Ltd., and Nasr Hussein Al-Hammadi are being designated pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, the Houthis.
On June 6, 2003, OFAC issued the Global Terrorism Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 594 (68 FR 34196, June 6, 2003 (“the Regulations”), to implement Executive Order (E.O.) 13224 of September 23, 2001, “Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism” (66 FR 49079, September 25, 2001). OFAC has amended the Regulations on several occasions.
On September 9, 2019, the President, invoking the authority of, inter alia, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701–1706) (IEEPA) and the United Nations Participation Act (22 U.S.C. 287c) (UNPA), issued E.O. 13886, “Modernizing Sanctions To Combat Terrorism” (84 FR 48041, September 12, 2019), effective September 10, 2019. In E.O. 13886, the President, finding it necessary to consolidate and enhance sanctions to combat acts of terrorism and threats of terrorism by foreign terrorists, terminated the national emergency declared in E.O. 12947 of January 23, 1995, “Prohibiting Transactions With Terrorists Who Threaten To Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process” (60 FR 5079, January 25, 1995), and revoked E.O. 12947, as amended by E.O. 13099 of August 20, 1998, “Prohibiting Transactions With Terrorists Who Threaten To Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process” (63 FR 45167, August 25, 1998). In addition, the President amended E.O. 13224, in order to build upon initial steps taken in E.O. 12947, to further strengthen and consolidate sanctions to combat the continuing threat posed by international terrorism, and in order to take additional steps to deal with the national emergency declared in E.O. 13224, with respect to the continuing and immediate threat of grave acts of terrorism and threats of terrorism committed by foreign terrorists, which include acts of terrorism that threaten the Middle East peace process.
Section 1 of E.O. 13886 replaces in its entirety section 1 of E.O. 13224, which had been amended by a number of prior Executive orders (E.O. 13224, as amended by all such authorities, is referred to herein as “amended E.O. 13224”), but does not amend the Annex to E.O. 13224, which was previously amended by E.O. 13268 of July 2, 2002, “Termination of Emergency With Respect to the Taliban and Amendment of Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001” (67 FR 44751, July 3, 2002) (“amended Annex to E.O. 13224”).
