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OFAC has published the list of medical devices excluded from the general licence for North Korea.
On 11 June 2026, OFAC published a Federal Register notice on medical devices excluded from a general licence for certain exports and re-exports to North Korea. The available file identifies the notice, but does not reproduce the detailed list.
Publication in the Federal Register
The Office of Foreign Assets Control is identified as the authority behind a Federal Register publication dated 11 June 2026 concerning North Korea . The title referenced by the Federal Register concerns the publication of a list of medical devices "requiring specific authorization for North Korea" . The scope mentioned in the publication file covers medical devices excluded from the benefit of a general licence applicable to certain exports and re-exports to North Korea .
The Federal Register page associated with this publication is referenced at federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/11/2026-11761/ . The content accessible in the file does not reproduce the text of the notice and displays a message on automated access restrictions at FederalRegister.gov and eCFR.gov . The message states that programmatic access to those sites is limited to their developer interfaces and refers users to the FederalRegister.gov and eCFR.gov interface documentation .
This documentary limitation means that the available file does not provide the detailed list of the medical devices concerned, nor any references to tariff subheadings, control codes or associated classification numbers . The available file identifies the publication, its authority, its date and its subject matter, without reproducing the annex or the table containing the list .
Announced scope of the general licence
The Office of Foreign Assets Control published on 11 June 2026 a notice entitled "Publication of the List of Medical Devices Requiring Specific Authorization for the North Korea Sanctions Regulations" in the Federal Register . The notice concerns a general licence applicable to the export or re-export to North Korea of certain categories of goods .
The announced scope covers certain agricultural commodities, medicines, medical devices and parts . The publication distinguishes between medical devices included within the general scope and those excluded from the benefit of that general licence . The excluded devices fall within a list published by OFAC and linked to the North Korea Sanctions Regulations .
According to the title of the notice, the medical devices appearing on that list require specific authorisation for transactions related to North Korea . The file presents that specific authorisation as distinct from the benefit of the general licence announced for certain agricultural commodities, medicines, medical devices and parts .
The source available in the file points to a Federal Register page whose programmatic access is restricted by an automated control mechanism . The full content of the list of excluded medical devices is not reproduced in the accessible extract from the file . Product codes, technical references for the devices and any sub-categories are not disclosed in the available extract .
Specific authorisation and documentary limitation
The Office of Foreign Assets Control published on 11 June 2026, in the Federal Register, a notice entitled "Publication of the List of Medical Devices Requiring Specific Authorization for the North Korea Sanctions Regulations" . The wording of the source links that notice to the North Korea Sanctions Regulations and to a list of medical devices subject to specific authorisation .
According to the extracted file, the listed medical devices are excluded from the benefit of a general licence applicable to certain exports or re-exports to North Korea of agricultural commodities, medicines, medical devices and parts . The announced regime places those devices within the scope of a specific OFAC authorisation . The detailed list of the medical devices concerned is not reproduced in the extracted file .
The Federal Register page available in the extract does not provide access to the full content of the notice . It displays a message stating that programmatic access to FederalRegister.gov and eCFR.gov is limited because of aggressive automated traffic . The message states in English: "programmatic access to these sites is limited to access to our extensive developer APIs" . The same page indicates that the request was flagged as potentially automated and directs the human user to a CAPTCHA .
The available extract therefore documents the existence of the notice, its publication date, its title and the access restriction displayed by FederalRegister.gov . It does not reproduce the annex or the detailed list of medical devices excluded from the general licence .
Sources cited
- federalregister.gov - OFAC publie la liste des dispositifs médicaux exclus du régime de licence générale vers la Corée du Nord