FCDO Sanctions
UKForeign, Commonwealth & Development Office (UK) maintains 46 active sanctions programs targeting 27 countries, including Afghanistan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Central African Republic, China, Congo (DRC), Cyprus and Guinea. This page lists every FCDO program, what each restricts, and links through to the affected countries and the underlying legal sources.
Programs
46
Countries targeted
27
Countries targeted by FCDO
FCDO Sanctions Programs
Afghanistan sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting designated persons in Afghanistan, implementing certain UN obligations. Includes asset freeze, arms embargo, and travel ban.
Bosnia and Herzegovina sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting designated persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including asset freeze and travel ban.
Bosnia and Herzegovina sanctions
UK sanctions regime targeting designated persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Limited scope: asset freeze, director disqualification, and travel ban.
Central African Republic sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting designated persons in the CAR, including arms embargo and restrictions on facilitating armed hostilities.
Chemical weapons sanctions
Thematic sanctions regime targeting designated persons involved in chemical weapons use, including asset freeze and travel ban.
Counter-terrorism international sanctions
Thematic sanctions regime targeting designated persons involved in international terrorism, including asset freeze, travel ban, and arms-related restrictions.
Counter-terrorism sanctions
Thematic sanctions regime targeting designated persons involved in terrorism, including asset freeze and travel ban. Replaced Part 1 of the Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc. Act 2010.
Cyber sanctions
Thematic sanctions regime targeting designated persons involved in cyber attacks, including asset freeze and travel ban.
Democratic People's Republic of Korea sanctions
Broad sanctions regime targeting DPRK's nuclear programme, ballistic missiles, and human rights abuses. Includes asset freeze, trade restrictions, financial sanctions, transport sanctions, and arms embargo.
Democratic Republic of the Congo sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting designated persons in the DRC, implementing UN obligations.
Global anti-corruption sanctions
Thematic sanctions regime targeting designated persons involved in serious corruption globally, including asset freeze and travel ban.
Global human rights sanctions
Thematic sanctions regime targeting designated persons involved in serious human rights violations globally, including asset freeze and travel ban.
Global irregular migration and trafficking in persons sanctions
Thematic sanctions regime targeting designated persons involved in irregular migration and trafficking in persons globally, including asset freeze and travel ban.
Guinea sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting designated persons in Guinea, including asset freeze and travel ban.
Haiti sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting designated persons in Haiti, including arms embargo, implementing UN obligations.
ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida sanctions
Thematic sanctions regime targeting designated persons connected with ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida, including asset freeze, arms embargo, and military technology restrictions, implementing UN obligations.
Iran nuclear sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting Iran's nuclear programme, including military goods, missile-related goods, nuclear-related goods, and related import/export restrictions.
Iran sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting Iran, including asset freeze, trade restrictions on internal repression goods, interception/monitoring technology, and goods of strategic concern.
Iraq sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting designated persons and entities connected with the former Iraqi regime, including asset freeze, arms embargo, and restrictions on illegally removed Iraqi cultural property.
Lebanon (Assassination of Rafiq Hariri and others) sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting designated persons connected with the assassination of Rafiq Hariri and others, implementing UN obligations.
Lebanon sanctions
Sanctions regime limited to military goods and military technology restrictions on Lebanon, implementing UN obligations.
Libya sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting Libya including designated persons, asset freeze on named entities (LIA and LAIP), arms embargo, and transport sanctions, implementing UN obligations.
Mali sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting designated persons in Mali, including asset freeze and travel ban.
Myanmar sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting Myanmar including asset freeze, arms embargo, trade restrictions on military/dual-use goods, internal repression goods, and restrictions on the Tatmadaw.
Nicaragua sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting designated persons in Nicaragua, including asset freeze and travel ban.
Republic of Belarus sanctions
Broad sanctions regime targeting Belarus, including asset freeze, trade restrictions, financial sanctions, transport sanctions, and arms embargo.
Republic of Guinea-Bissau sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting designated persons in Guinea-Bissau, implementing UN obligations.
Russia sanctions
Broad sanctions regime targeting Russia including asset freeze, trade restrictions, financial sanctions, investment bans, transport sanctions, oil and oil services ban, and restrictions on Crimea and non-government-controlled territory of Ukraine.
Somalia sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting Somalia including designated persons, arms embargo, IED components restrictions, and charcoal import ban, implementing UN obligations.
South Sudan sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting South Sudan including designated persons, arms embargo, and restrictions on facilitating armed hostilities, implementing UN obligations.
Sudan sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting Sudan including designated persons, arms embargo, and restrictions on facilitating armed hostilities.
Syria cultural property sanctions
Sanctions regime prohibiting the import, export, supply, delivery, making available or acquisition of illegally removed Syrian cultural property.
Syria sanctions
Broad sanctions regime targeting Syria including asset freeze, arms embargo, trade restrictions on luxury goods, oil and gas technology, and interception/monitoring goods and services.
UK Democratic People's Republic of Korea sanctions
Under The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
UK Democratic Republic of the Congo sanctions
Under The Democratic Republic of the Congo (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
UK Global irregular migration and trafficking in persons sanctions
Under The Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons Sanctions Regulations 2025
UK ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida sanctions
Under The ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida (United Nations Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
UK Lebanon (Assassination of Rafiq Hariri and others) sanctions
Under The Lebanon (Sanctions) (Assassination of Rafiq Hariri and others) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020
UK Republic of Belarus sanctions
Under The Republic of Belarus (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
UK UK arms embargo on mainland China and Hong Kong sanctions
Under The Export Control Order 2008
UK Unauthorised drilling activities sanctions
Under The Unauthorised Drilling Activities in the Eastern Mediterranean (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020
UK arms embargo on mainland China and Hong Kong
UK arms embargo on mainland China and Hong Kong.
Unauthorised drilling activities sanctions
Thematic sanctions regime targeting designated persons involved in unauthorised drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean, including asset freeze and travel ban.
Venezuela sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting Venezuela including asset freeze, arms embargo, trade restrictions on military and internal repression goods, and interception/monitoring services.
Yemen sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting designated persons in Yemen, including asset freeze, travel ban, and arms embargo, implementing UN obligations.
Zimbabwe sanctions
Sanctions regime targeting Zimbabwe including asset freeze, travel ban, arms embargo, trade restrictions on military and internal repression goods, and military-related services.