---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 C.F.R. § 544.405"
title: "31"
number: "544.405"
heading: "Provision of services."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/31/544.405"
---

# §544.405. Provision of services.

- (a) Except as provided in [§ 544.206](/cfr/31/544.206.md), the prohibitions on transactions involving blocked property contained in [§ 544.201](/cfr/31/544.201.md) apply to services performed in the United States or by U.S. persons, wherever located, including by an overseas branch of an entity located in the United States:
  - (1) On behalf of or for the benefit of a person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to [§ 544.201(a)](/cfr/31/544.201.md?p=a); or
  - (2) With respect to property interests subject to [§ 544.201](/cfr/31/544.201.md).
- (b) **Example—** U.S. persons may not, except as authorized by or pursuant to this part, provide legal, accounting, financial, brokering, freight forwarding, transportation, public relations, or other services to a person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to [§ 544.201(a)](/cfr/31/544.201.md?p=a).

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 3 U.S.C. 301; 31 U.S.C. 321(b); 50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq., 1701 et seq.; Pub. L. 101-410, 104 Stat. 890, as amended (28 U.S.C. 2461 note); E.O. 12938, 59 FR 59099, 3 CFR, 1994 Comp., p. 950; E.O. 13094, 63 FR 40803, 3 CFR, 1998 Comp., p. 200; E.O. 13382, 70 FR 38567, 3 CFR, 2005 Comp., p. 170.

### Source

Source: 74 FR 16773, Apr. 13, 2009, unless otherwise noted.