OFAC to retire PIP, DEL, and SDALL.ZIP file formats of the sanctions list on or about the week of September 18, 2023

The Office of Foreign Assets Control, OFAC, has published a press statement to announce that it is delaying the retirement of several of its sanction list file formats from August 15, 2023 to the week of September 18, 2023. Thereafter, these formats will no longer be available. The affected file formats are listed in below noted table:
Table 1 – File Formats that will be retired

OFAC has also announced that this cessation or the delay of such will have no impact upon the functionality of its OFAC Sanctions Search Tool or upon the continued publication of file formats such as XML, CSV, PDF and FF. Also, users may continue to access OFAC data files via the below noted links:
– SDN List Data Files: Specially Designated Nationals List – Data Formats & Data Schemas | Office of Foreign Assets Control (treasury.gov)
– All non-SDN List Data Files (Consolidated List): Consolidated Sanctions List (Non-SDN Lists) | Office of Foreign Assets Control (treasury.gov)
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Questions concerning issues arising from or in connection with the cessation shall be sent to: O_F_A_C@treasury.gov.