For SNSUC's Urals re-exports, the price cap is the reddest of red lines. Of the seven re-export grades, only Urals falls under the Western cap mechanism: the delivered price must stay at or below the $60/bbl ceiling. This is not guidance but a sanctions clause — crossing it triggers secondary sanctions.

Compliance rests on a three-document check: the commercial invoice splits FOB and freight, the bill of lading proves title and routing, and the payment record proves settlement stayed under $60. The unit prices across the three must corroborate each other; any figure above the cap freezes the whole parcel at the bank. SNSUC runs the cross-document reconciliation before the letter of credit is opened — better to skip a deal than touch the line.

What matters is that the cap only binds Urals. ESPO, Oman, Dubai and the other five grades sit outside it. Isolating Urals and front-loading the cap logic into the LC opening step is the hardest gate in SNSUC's compliance architecture.