Were there nations that did not comply with the UN sanctions on Iraq?

"International support for the embargo has dwindled amid a growing perception that they hurt the Iraqi people more than President Saddam Hussein. The US and its allies are reported to be facing difficulties persuading Turkey, Syria and Jordan to give up their profits from a lucrative trade in smuggled Iraqi oil. Syria has been buying more than 100,000 barrels a day of Iraqi oil, at a discount because the money goes straight to the Iraqi Government, not to the UN account which receives most oil revenues."

"In addition to U.N.-sanctioned oil exports to Jordan, which are currently carried by truck, there have been persistent reports that Iraq has smuggled 200,00-400,000 bbl/d of crude oil and products via a number of routes. These include:

1) to Turkey (as high as 100,000-150,000 bbl/d, mainly of fuel oil) by truck through the Habur border point (reportedly, this smuggling was stopped from September 18, 2001 through January 7, 2002)

2) to Jordan (possibly 10,000-30,000 bbl/d above domestic needs) by truck;

3) to Syria (150,000-200,000 bbl/d or more), mainly via the Kirkuk-Banias pipeline, with smaller volumes possibly moving via a railway line from Mosul to Aleppo;

4) to Iran along the Gulf coast and via Qais Island; and

5) to Dubai with the use of small tankers sailing from Umm Qasr.

Press reports have estimated that these illegal shipments may be providing Iraq with as much as $600 million-$2 billion per year in illegal revenues, while a U.S. General Accounting Office study released in May 2002 estimated that Iraq had earned $6.6 billion from oil smuggling and illegal surcharges from 1997 through 2001."

In January 2002, the United Kingdom directly accused Syria of violating U.N. sanctions on Iraq by shipping over 100,000 bbl/d of Iraqi oil to Syria without U.N. permission. An estimated $100 million or so per month of Iraq;s illegal oil export revenues are estimated to be coming from the Syria pipeline alone, with oil sold to Syria at a significant price discount off Kirkuk published prices."