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The Sanctions Pressure panel (internal id sanctions-pressure) turns the OFAC SDN and Consolidated lists plus Global Affairs Canada SEMA/JVCFOA designations 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.

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What the panel shows

The panel is a compact, analyst-oriented surface (defaultRowSpan: 2):
  • Summary bar — cards at the top: New (new designations since the last update — highlighted when > 0), SEMA (semaCount from the GAC list; 0 if that fetch failed), Vessels, 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 program (OFAC programs plus SEMA, JVCFOR, HAMAS, SETTLER).
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({...})).

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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.

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Data sources

SanctionsPressureResult payload from @/services/sanctions-pressure, backed by:
  • OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list
  • OFAC Consolidated List
  • Global Affairs Canada SEMA / JVCFOA consolidated list (sema-ca)
The seeder pulls each list independently, concatenates OFAC and SEMA (SEMA may attach onto OFAC only), and diffs against the previous snapshot to compute newEntryCount. SEMA <Country> is the regulation, not nationality, so it is stored on programs / the note rather than countryCodes. A SEMA row whose own identity fields are unusable (no regulation, a non-numeric item, an IMO that is not seven digits, or no name) is held back rather than repaired, and the rest of the list still publishes. The held-back row IDs and reasons appear under sourceHealth["sema-ca"].quarantined in seed-meta:sanctions:pressure. If more than 1% of rows are held back, or any row breaks the table’s field or date contract, the whole SEMA source is rejected for that run.

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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.

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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.

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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.