The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) released a fact sheet^[1] outlining all of the various licenses, protocols and general provisions that provide for the export and reexport of medicine, food and other items that meet basic human needs to U.S.-sanctioned countries. The fact sheet clarifies and consolidates the many exemptions to the U.S. sanctions regimes against Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, Syria, Cuba and Ukraine/Russia-related entities.