Gemini Shipping, Inc. v. Foreign Trade Organization for Chemicals and Foodstuffs and Syrian General Organization for Maritime Transport

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

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This appeal presents issues sufficiently similar to those resolved today in Texas Trading & Milling Corp. v. Federal Republic of Nigeria 1 that we need only apply much of the doctrine developed there to the facts at issue here. “Tafeo” is an imperfect acronym for the Foreign Trade Organization for Chemicals and Foodstuffs. Tafeo is wholly owned by the Syrian government; it buys food for consumption in Syria. “Syri-amar” is similar shorthand for the Syrian General Organization for Maritime Transport. Syriamar is also wholly owned by the Syrian government; it…