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Sanctions Pressure

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The Sanctions Pressure panel (internal id sanctions-pressure) turns the OFAC SDN and Consolidated sanctions lists into an actionable overview: which countries are under the most designation pressure right now, what programs are driving it, and what has changed since the last update.

What the panel shows

The panel is a compact, analyst-oriented surface (defaultRowSpan: 2):

  • Summary bar — three cards at the top: New (new designations since the last update — highlighted when > 0), Vessels (designated vessels in the current set), Aircraft (designated aircraft).
  • Country rows — top 8 countries by sanctions designation pressure, each row showing the country label, total designation count, and the program mix.
  • Program rows — designations grouped by OFAC program (e.g. sectoral, counter-terrorism).

The panel tracks activity (trackActivity: true) so newly arrived designations get the standard new-item visual treatment.

Panel id is sanctions-pressure; canonical component is src/components/SanctionsPressurePanel.ts. Displayed title: "Sanctions & Designations" (from super({...})).

How you reach it

  • Cmd+K: type sanctions or OFAC.
  • Availability by variant: registered and enabled by default in the full/geopolitical (priority 2), finance (priority 1), and commodity (priority 1) variants. Not present in the tech or happy variants. Source: 'sanctions-pressure' entries in FULL_PANELS, FINANCE_PANELS, COMMODITY_PANELS in src/config/panels.ts.

Data sources

SanctionsPressureResult payload from @/services/sanctions-pressure, backed by:

  • OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list
  • OFAC Consolidated List

The seeder pulls both, normalises the country attribution, counts vessels and aircraft, and diffs against the previous snapshot to compute newEntryCount.

Refresh cadence

OFAC publishes list updates on an irregular cadence (daily-to-weekly). The panel reads the most recent snapshot; freshness is surfaced indirectly via newEntryCount.

Tier & gating

PRO-gated. The panel is visible in its configured variants, but the sanctions-pressure RPC requires a PRO entitlement. Free or unentitled callers receive a documented 403 response instead of an empty sanctions payload.

API reference

  • Sanctions service — sanctions pressure + entity search RPCs.
  • Related: GET /api/sanctions/v1/lookup-sanction-entity?q=... — fuzzy entity lookup against OpenSanctions (live) with OFAC local index as a fallback.