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title: "Sanctions Pressure"
description: "OFAC SDN + Consolidated List designations surfaced as country-level pressure scores, with new-entry / vessel / aircraft counts and program-level breakdowns."
---

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](/api/SanctionsService.openapi.yaml) — 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.
