The Coast Guard is imposing conditions of entry on vessels arriving in the U.S. from Suriname, a country between Brazil and Venezuela in northern South America that the Coast Guard has determined to not have effective antiterrorism measures in its ports.
Specifically, all commercial vessels that arrive in the U.S. on or after Sept. 17 after visiting ports in Suriname as one of their last five ports of call will have to take specified actions in foreign ports and after arriving in the U.S. More information can be found here.
The current list of countries assessed and not maintaining effective anti-terrorism measures (and therefore subject to conditions of entry) is as follows: Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Federated States of Micronesia, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Madagascar, Nauru, Nigeria, North Korea, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Timor-Leste, Venezuela, and Yemen.
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