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Colgate-Palmolive (CL): Venezuela Exposure Check

Independent audit of Colgate-Palmolive's exposure to Venezuela — OFAC SDN matches, SEC filings, and Caracas Research news corpus.

Ticker: CL
S&P 500 sector: Consumer Staples
Headquarters: New York City , New York
OFAC matches: 0
EDGAR filings: 6
Last refreshed: 2026-04-25

OFAC Venezuela SDN matches

No entry on the OFAC Venezuela SDN list contains Colgate-Palmolive or any of its operating subsidiaries (Colgate-Palmolive de Venezuela) as of the most recent OFAC scrape. Always re-verify with OFAC Sanctions Search before transacting.

SEC filings disclosing Venezuela items

Colgate-Palmolive has filed 6 recent SEC documents containing references to Venezuela, PdVSA, CITGO or related terms. These are the company's own disclosures.

10-K · 2026-02-23

SEC EDGAR · accession 0000021665-26-000006

10-K · 2025-02-13

SEC EDGAR · accession 0000021665-25-000008

8-K · 2026-01-30

SEC EDGAR · accession 0000021665-26-000003

10-K · 2026-02-23

SEC EDGAR · accession 0000021665-26-000006

8-K · 2024-04-26

SEC EDGAR · accession 0000021665-24-000014

8-K · 2025-04-25

SEC EDGAR · accession 0000021665-25-000019

Federal Register & news corpus mentions

No Federal Register notice or analyzed news article in our corpus references Colgate-Palmolive in a Venezuela context. Search the live sanctions tracker or the daily briefing index for ad-hoc context.

Caracas Research analyst note

Colgate-Palmolive disclosed full deconsolidation of its Venezuelan subsidiary in 2015 due to currency-control regulations preventing meaningful US-dollar control of operations.

Known Venezuela-related operating entities or counterparties: Colgate-Palmolive de Venezuela.

US trade-restriction screening (BIS / Commerce)

OFAC sanctions are one of four major US restricted-party registers a counterparty needs to be screened against. The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) maintains three more — the Entity List, the Denied Persons List, and the Unverified List — under the Export Administration Regulations (15 CFR Part 744). All four are consolidated by the International Trade Administration into the single Consolidated Screening List. The links below deep-search each register for Colgate-Palmolive; a US-domiciled public company will not normally appear, but the official lookup is the only authoritative way to confirm.

BIS Consolidated Screening List (search this name) → — US Department of Commerce — International Trade Administration
BIS Entity List (full official list, 15 CFR 744 Supp. 4) → — US Department of Commerce — Bureau of Industry and Security
BIS Denied Persons List (active denial orders) → — US Department of Commerce — Bureau of Industry and Security
BIS Unverified List (parties pending end-use verification) → — US Department of Commerce — Bureau of Industry and Security
OFAC Sanctions Search (re-verify SDN status) → — US Treasury — Office of Foreign Assets Control

Methodology. This page combines four signals: (1) a hand-curated map of S&P 500 Venezuela exposure maintained by Caracas Research analysts; (2) fuzzy substring matching against every Venezuela-program OFAC SDN designation (refreshed twice daily); (3) the SEC EDGAR full-text search across the company's 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, 20-F, and 6-K filings for the past 24 months; (4) a scan of our own analyzed-news corpus and US Federal Register notices. Last refreshed 2026-04-25. This is not legal or compliance advice; always verify with primary sources and qualified sanctions counsel before transacting.

Frequently asked questions

Is Colgate-Palmolive (CL) sanctioned by OFAC?

As of April 2026, Colgate-Palmolive (CL) is not listed on the OFAC Venezuela SDN list. No direct or subsidiary entity match was found in our scan against the live US Treasury SDN feed. Always re-verify against the official OFAC Sanctions Search before relying on this for a compliance decision.

Is Colgate-Palmolive (CL) on a US trade-restriction list (BIS Entity List, Denied Persons List, or Unverified List)?

No. Colgate-Palmolive is a US-domiciled public company and does not appear on the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Entity List, Denied Persons List, or Unverified List as of April 2026. These export-control lists, administered by the US Department of Commerce under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR / 15 CFR Part 744), target foreign end-users — not US-headquartered issuers. Re-verify in the official Consolidated Screening List before relying on this for a compliance decision.

Does Colgate-Palmolive have Venezuela revenue exposure?

Colgate-Palmolive has historical Venezuela exposure that has been wound down or written off. Colgate-Palmolive disclosed full deconsolidation of its Venezuelan subsidiary in 2015 due to currency-control regulations preventing meaningful US-dollar control of operations.

Has Colgate-Palmolive disclosed Venezuela in its SEC filings?

Colgate-Palmolive has filed 6 recent SEC documents containing Venezuela-related references (searched across 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, 20-F, and 6-K filings on EDGAR over the last 24 months). See the SEC filings section on the page for the matched excerpts and links to each filing.