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News, analysis and commentary on export controls, customs law, antidumping law and other international trade issues.
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Last Entry: September 22, 2020 at 11:18:55

Dutch Company and Two Dutch Citizens Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Export Aircraft Components and Other Goods to Iran

Posted on September 24, 2009
A series of guilty pleas in a criminal export enforcement case announced today by the Justice Department is a good reminder of the need for U.S. exporters to be extra vigilant when trying to comply with U.S. export control laws, particularly when buyers are determined to circumvent U...

Council on Foreign Relations: The Lengthening List of Iran Sanctions

Posted on September 23, 2009
The Council on Foreign Relations published an article today entitled "The Lengthening List of Iran Sanctions" that discusses the various efforts by the U.S. and the international community to impose sanctions on Iran. The article contains a list of the various sanctions imposed by the U...

Alan Bersin Nominated to Serve as Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Posted on September 22, 2009
Today President Obama nominated Alan Bersin to serve as U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner. Mr. Berson is currently serving as Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Representative for Border Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security...

Members of Congress Displeased by Report of Saudi Arabia's Increased Boycotting Activity

Posted on September 22, 2009
As a follow-up to the recent Jerusalem Post story regarding the increase in boycott requests from Saudi Arabia, a follow-up story in that newspaper described the Congressional reaction to the report. The story, entitled "'Post' report sparks congressional anger" notes that "leading Democratic and...

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Secretaries of Commerce and Defense Meet to Discuss Export Control and Business Visa Reform

Posted on September 22, 2009
Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke met yesterday with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates at the Pentagon to discuss export controls and business visa reform. (Photo courtesy of Department of Commerce). Locke and Gates met for approximately one hour and agreed to continue to work together with their...

Iran Gains U.S. Military Technology Through Malaysia Middlemen

Posted on September 15, 2009
Bloomberg.com reported today that "Iran increasingly is obtaining U.S. military equipment and technology through shipments to Malaysian middlemen that illegally circumvent trade restrictions, according to American officials and analysts." Among other things, the article notes: Middlemen also...

Registration Now Open for U.S.-China High Technology Working Group Meeting in Washington, DC

Posted on September 15, 2009
Registration is now open for the U.S.-China High Technology Working Group public-private sector dialogue that will be held in the Reagan Building in Washington, DC on September 29, 2009. The one-day event will feature a number of speakers on U.S.-China high technology trade-related issues,...

Saudi Arabia Steps Up Boycott of Israel

Posted on September 15, 2009
Today's Jerusalem Post reports that "despite efforts by Washington in recent years to bring about a normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab world, Saudi Arabia has been steadily intensifying its enforcement of the Arab League boycott of Israel...

LA Film Executives Found Guilty of Violating FCPA in Connection With Contracts in Thailand

Posted on September 15, 2009
The Justice Department issued a press release today regarding Friday's conviction of two Los Angeles-area film executives in a closely watched criminal case involving the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). After a two and a half week jury trial in the Central District of California...

President Nominates Eric Hirschorn as Nominee for Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration and Head of BIS

Posted on September 11, 2009
Today, President Obama announced his intent to nominate Washington, DC attorney Eric Hirschorn as Nominee for Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration and head of the Bureau of Industry and Security. As indicated by his biography from the formal announcement below, Mr...

DDTC Issues Announcement Regarding Use of USML Category XXI

Posted on September 09, 2009
The State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) issued an announcement (doc) today that could impact many exporters of products and technical data subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). As noted below, DDTC will all require all license submissions for...

OFAC Issues General License Authorizing Sales of Medicine, Medical Devices and Agricultural Commodities to Certain Areas in Sudan

Posted on September 09, 2009
Today the Treasury Department?s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a final rule in the Federal Register amending the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations (31 CFR Part 538) by adding a general license authorizing the export and reexport of medical devices, medicine and agricultural commodities...

U.S. State Department Designates North Korean Nuclear and Missile Entities

Posted on September 08, 2009
The U.S. Department of State today designated two entities in North Korea under Executive Order 13382, which authorizes the blocking of property of persons engaged in proliferation activities and their support networks. The following is a brief a summary of these entities: General Bureau of...

BIS Publishes Final Rule Regarding In-Country Transfers to Parties on Entity List

Posted on September 08, 2009
The Bureau of Industry (BIS) published a final rule (PDF) in today's Federal Register amending several sections of Part 744 of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to specify that in-country transfers of items subject to the EAR to parties on the Entity List are now subject to the Entity's...

Changes to Cuba Embargo Published in Today's Federal Register

Posted on September 08, 2009
Today's edition of the Federal Register contains the final rules making the changes to the U.S. embargo on Cuba announced last week by the Departments of Treasury and Commerce. The PDF version of the changes made to OFAC's Cuban Assets Control Regulations can be found here...

Census Modifies AES to Implement Cuba License Exception Consumer Communication Devices

Posted on September 04, 2009
In order to implement yesterday's changes in certain aspects of the U.S. embargo on Cuba, the Census Bureau's Foreign Trade Division has issued Foreign Trade Letter No. 5 explaining the requirements for filing electronic export information (EEI) through the Automated Export System (AES) for...

BIS Amends Export Adminstration Regulations Governing Travel and Gifts to Cuba

Posted on September 03, 2009
In addition to the changes made in the U.S. embargo on Cuba made today by OFAC (see previous post) the U.S. Department of Commerce?s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) today amended the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to implement the President?s April 13, 2009 directive to make it...

OFAC Issues Regulations Making Changes to Cuban Embargo

Posted on September 03, 2009
Today the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued the long-awaited final rule to amend the Cuban Assets Control Regulations to implement changes to the U.S. embargo on Cuba passed by Congress in March of this year. The advance version of the final rule that will be...

Freight Forwarder Fined For Export Violation May be Forced to Shut Down

Posted on September 02, 2009
American Metal Market (www.amm.com) recently ran the following story containing additional details on our recent post describing the recent Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) enforcement case involving Eastways Shipping Corporation, a New York City-based freight forwarder...

U.S.-China High Technology Working Group to Hold Public-Private Sector Dialogue on September 29, 2009

Posted on September 02, 2009
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced today that the next session of the U.S.-China High Technology Working Group (HTWG), which will be held in Washington, DC at the end of September 2009 will include a public-private dialogue on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 (the day before Update 2009...

International Arms Dealer Arrested for Conspiracy to Supply U.S. Fighter Jet Engines to Iran

Posted on September 02, 2009
The Justice Department announced today that a Belgian national and resident of France suspected of international arms dealing for decades, has been arrested in New York on charges alleging that he conspired to illegally export F-5 fighter jet engines and parts from the United States to Iran...

Sentencing of Atmospheric Glow Technologies, Inc. Set for October 28, 2009

Posted on September 01, 2009
The sentencing of Atmospheric Glow Technologies, Inc. (AGT), the company alleged to be Professor John Reece Roth's co-conspirator in the criminal case involving unlawful exports of ITAR controlled technology, has been moved to 10 a.m. on October 28, 2009 in Knoxville, Tennessee...

OFAC Makes "Large Scale" Changes to SDN List

Posted on September 01, 2009
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control today announced that it released an updated version of its list of Specially Designated Nationals ("SDN List"). While OFAC's update did not include any substantive changes to the parties included on the SDN List, the new version of the SDN...

OFAC Issues August 2009 Monthly Civil Penalties Report

Posted on September 01, 2009
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today issued its August 2009 monthly civil penalty report. Given the very large civil penalties announced by OFAC earlier in August on ANZ Bank and DHL this penalty report is very short...

BIS Imposes $70,000 Civil Penalty on NY Freight Forwarder for Entity List Violation

Posted on August 25, 2009
Yet another company has been fined by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) for an export-related violation involving a party on the Entity List. Today BIS posted the settlement documents involving Eastways Shipping Corporation, a New York City-based freight forwarder...

DDTC Publishes Statutory Debarment List

Posted on August 25, 2009
The State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) published a notice in today's Federal Register (pdf) listing the 53 companies and individuals that have been statutorily debarred from participating in ITAR-related transactions as a result of being convicted of violating or...

OFAC Imposes $5.75 Million Penalty on Bank for Violating U.S. Embargoes on Sudan and Cuba

Posted on August 24, 2009
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today announced that the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, Ltd. of Melbourne, Australia (ANZ), remitted $5,750,000 to settle allegations that it violated the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations and the Cuban Assets Control...

Cracking Down on Iran's Illicit Trade

Posted on August 19, 2009
Michael Jacobson, a senior fellow in The Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, today published a policy paper entitled "Cracking Down on Iran's Illicit Trade." The policy paper recommends that "strengthening the export control regime to...

Despite Reports U.S. Export Control Policy on Syria Remains Unchanged

Posted on August 18, 2009
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently posted an updated version of it guidance and frequently asked questions involving U.S. exports to Syria. The bottom line: Despite many news reports to the contrary, U.S. export controls involving Syria remains unchanged...

Latest Posts on Recent BIS Export Enforcement Cases Updated

Posted on August 18, 2009
Yesterday's blog posts on the BIS export control enforcement cases involving RFMD and FMC have been updated to include additional information contained in the proposed charging letter and settlement agreements that were posted yesterday afternoon (see posts below)...

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