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The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) amended the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR) to exclude entities and sub-entities identified on the Cuba Restricted List from three remittance general licences: §515.570 (outbound remittances), §515.572(a)(3) (remittance forwarding services), and §515.587 (other authorised remittances). The rule additionally amended the ordinarily-incident provision §515.421 to confirm that transactions routed through Cuba Restricted List entities are not covered even where the underlying licence does not expressly exclude them. The effective date was 30 days after Federal Register publication, on 26 November 2020.

Angola's President João Lourenço signed Decreto Presidencial n.º 271/20 on 20 October 2020, replacing Order n.º 127/03 of 2003 and establishing the Regime Jurídico do Conteúdo Local do Sector dos Petróleos (RJCLSP). The decree divides petroleum-sector contracting into three regimes — exclusivity (reserved for Angolan nationals and companies), preference (Angolan-majority bidders take priority), and open competition with mandatory local-content scoring — covering all goods and services contracts entered into by concessionaires and their full subcontracting chains. The Ministério dos Recursos Minerais, Petróleo e Gás (MIREMPET) supervises compliance, with non-inclusion of mandatory local-content clauses penalised at USD 50,000–200,000 per infraction and escalating to contract cancellation for repeat offenders. The RJCLSP applies to all IOCs operating Angolan offshore blocks, including TotalEnergies (Block 17), ExxonMobil (Block 15), Chevron (Blocks 0, 14, 14K), BP (Block 31), Eni (Blocks 2, 14, 15/06), and Equinor, as well as their oilfield-services subcontractor chains.

The Export Control Law of the People's Republic of China was adopted by the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress on 17 October 2020 (Presidential Order No. 58) and entered into force on 1 December 2020. Comprising 5 chapters and 49 articles, it establishes the unified statutory framework governing China's export-control regime over dual-use items, military items, nuclear items, and other goods, technologies, services, and data whose export could affect national security or China's non-proliferation obligations. The law introduces comprehensive licensing requirements, end-user and end-use certification, deemed-export and re-export controls with extraterritorial reach, a Controlled Entities List (CEL) with matching-entity restrictions, and substantial criminal and administrative penalties — and it is the parent statutory authority under which every China export-control implementing instrument in the IPTM register operates.

On 8 October 2020, the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) determined that section 1(a)(i) of Executive Order 13902 (10 January 2020) applies to the financial sector of the Iranian economy, exposing non-US persons that operate in or knowingly facilitate significant transactions with that sector to secondary sanctions. Concurrently, OFAC designated eighteen Iranian banks (sixteen under E.O. 13902, one as an owned-or-controlled affiliate, and Hekmat Iranian Bank under E.O. 13382 non-proliferation authority). After a 45-day wind-down, the secondary-sanctions exposure became effective on 22 November 2020. The determination was formally republished in the Federal Register on 1 October 2025 (FR Doc 2025-19123) under Trump 2.0's maximum-pressure restoration; the underlying economic measure dates to the 2020 action.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published the International Criminal Court-Related Sanctions Regulations as an interim final rule effective 1 October 2020, codifying into 31 CFR Part 520 the IEEPA-based asset-blocking authorities delegated by President Trump's Executive Order 13928 of 11 June 2020. The regulations authorised OFAC to block the property and property interests of persons determined to have materially assisted, sponsored, or supported ICC efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any U.S. or allied-nation personnel without consent. No individual designations were made under 31 CFR Part 520 before the programme was terminated by President Biden's EO 14022 in April 2021 and OFAC struck the part from the CFR effective 6 July 2021.

The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) amended the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (31 CFR Part 515) effective 24 September 2020 to further deny the Cuban regime revenue. The rule added a new prohibition on lodging at any property on the State Department's Cuba Prohibited Accommodations List (PAL) and removed the general licence permitting travellers to import Cuban-origin alcohol and tobacco products as accompanied baggage. It also narrowed the professional meetings and conferences general licence (515.564) and the public performances, clinics, workshops, competitions, and exhibitions general licence (515.575) to exclude Cuba-related activities, closing gaps exploited under earlier travel-authorisation categories.

Finland's parent foreign-direct-investment screening statute. Laki ulkomaalaisten yritysostojen seurannasta (172/2012) — originally enacted in 2012 to replace the 1992 act — was comprehensively amended by Act 682/2020, which entered into force 11 October 2020 to align Finnish national procedure with EU Regulation 2019/452 establishing the EU FDI cooperation mechanism. The Act establishes (i) mandatory ex-ante notification to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment (TEM) for non-EU/EEA acquisitions of Finnish entities producing or supplying defence equipment, dual-use goods, or products/services critical to functions vital to society, and (ii) voluntary notification for any acquisition of a Finnish company with "critical interests for securing societal vital functions." Foreign-owner triggers apply at 10%, one-third, and 50% of voting rights or equivalent influence. TEM is designated the Finnish FDI contact point under Reg 2019/452. Confirmation is granted by TEM unless a key national interest is endangered, in which case the matter is referred to a Government plenary session (Valtioneuvoston yleisistunto); a denied transaction obliges the foreign owner to dispose of the shares within a stated period.