Among the seven re-export grades, Urals is the only one directly bound by a Western price cap. The $60/bbl ceiling is not SNSUC's own rule; it is the G7 hard constraint on seaborne Russian crude, and any deal priced above it loses compliant hull insurance and settlement access. As an offshore intermediary, SNSUC never absorbs that compliance risk for the buyer.

Operationally we gate on three documents: the commercial invoice, the bill of lading and the load-port inspection certificate must carry a consistent price and none may breach the $60 ceiling. If any single document shows a price that fails to match, the whole cargo is stopped at the letter-of-credit stage. There is no room to negotiate this line, and no load-first-certify-later workaround is accepted.

Iran remains the only origin on SNSUC's automatic reject list; Iraq has been explicitly exempt since October 2026. Once the origin rule was coded into sanctions_screen.py, the system checks every inquiry automatically, so operators no longer flip through the rules by hand.