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BIS Imposes $610,000 Penalty on Houston Company for Unlicensed Exports of Controlled Valves

Posted on August 17, 2009
In yet another export enforcement case involving controlled valves, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced late last week that FMC Technologies, Inc., a Houston-based provider of specialty products and services to the oil and gas sector, agreed to pay a $610,000...

BIS Imposes Civil Penalties on U.S. Exporter and Export Controls Compliance Employee

Posted on August 17, 2009
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has imposed a civil penalty on a U.S. manufacturer and an employee with export control compliance responsibilities for unlicensed exports of high performance semiconductor components to China...

President Obama Orders Export Control Review Initiative

Posted on August 14, 2009
Be sure to follow the International Trade Law News Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/tradelawnews for more regular news updates, including yesterday's announcement that President Obama has directed the National Economic Council and National Security Council to conduct a broad review of the U...

Professor Roth Released on Bond Pending Appeal; Roth's Co-Conspirators to be Sentenced Later This Month

Posted on August 03, 2009
Here is the latest update on the criminal export controls case involving Professor John Reece Roth and his alleged co-conspirators. Dr. Roth Released on Bond Pending Appeal Following Professor Roth's sentencing to 48 months in prison for violating the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and being...

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CBP Selects Four Customs Brokers to Participate in Self-Assessment Pilot Program

Posted on July 30, 2009
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has selected four customs brokers to to participate in the Broker Self-Assessment Outreach Pilot program that was announced in April 2009. CBP plans to use the pilot program to assist the agency in determining whether to formally implement the BSA program...

U.S. Tells Syria That it Will Process Eligible Export License Applications as Quickly as Possible

Posted on July 28, 2009
There were various news reports today, including some from Syria, indicating that the U.S. Government had advised Syria that it was lifting sanctions or issuing waivers on the export of U.S.-origin parts and components for civil aircraft "as well as the embargo on exporting communications and...

BIS Annual Report Outlining 2008 Export Licensing and Enforcement Initiatives

Posted on July 28, 2009
Reprinted from Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg's WorldTrade Interactive daily newsletter: The Bureau of Industry and Security has posted to its Web site a report summarizing its activities during fiscal year 2008. Highlights of this report include the following...

Several Important Trade-Related Issues Discussed at First U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue

Posted on July 28, 2009
Today marked the conclusion of the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue held in Washington, DC. At the conclusion of the meetings, the U.S. and China issued a Joint Fact Sheet summarizing the issues and action items agreed to during the two days of discussions...

Importing and Exporting For Executives Program to be Held in Miami and Tampa on August 27 and 28, 2009

Posted on July 28, 2009
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New Report Confirms Increased Use of Trade Remedy Cases and Spike in Safeguard Cases

Posted on July 27, 2009
Professor Chad P. Bown, publisher of the Global Antidumping Database, recently issued a report confirming that the number of trade remedy cases is increasing. The report, entitled "Protectionism Continues its Climb", states that the second quarter of 2009 saw a 12...

BIS Announces Agenda and Other Details About Update 2009 Conference

Posted on July 27, 2009
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has posted on its website the agenda and other details for the 22nd annual Update Conference on Export Controls and Policy that will be held in Washington, DC from September 30 through October 2, 2009. In addition, BIS began sending registration...

BIS Issues Final Rule Adding and Removing Parties on Entity List

Posted on July 22, 2009
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a final rule in today's Federal Register amending the Entity List to add and remove certain parties. The modifications to the Entity List were as follows: Thirteen entities in Germany, Hong Kong and Ireland were added to the Entity List on grounds...

Commerce Secretary Says Reviewing U.S. Export Controls is One of His Top Five Priorities

Posted on July 22, 2009
In a speech presented this evening to the Washington International Trade Association, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said that "undertaking a review of export controls" is one of his top five priorities and that he has already instructed the Bureau of Industry and Security to initiate a review of...

Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions May Move Forward if U.S. Engagement With Iran Fails

Posted on July 22, 2009
The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing today on recent developments in Iran and their implications for U.S. Policy. In his opening statement, Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) said that if engagement with Iran does not work he is prepared to move forward with the Iran Refined...

DDTC Issues Notice Regarding License Applications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Inertial Measurement Units

Posted on July 21, 2009
To assist in the proper routing of license applications, the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls today issued the following notice regarding license applications submitted for USML Category VIII Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Inertial Measurement Units: Effective immediately, the Directorate of...

DDTC Issues Policy Guidance Regarding Exports of ITAR Components Destined for Satellites Launched From India

Posted on July 21, 2009
Following yesterday's joint announcement that the U.S. and India signed a Technology Safeguards Agreement to permit civil or non-commercial satellites containing U.S. ITAR-controlled components on Indian space launch vehicles, the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls today issued the following...

BIS publishes Critical Technology Assessment of Five Axis Simultaneous Control Machine Tools

Posted on July 21, 2009
The Bureau of Industry and Security's (BIS) Office of Technology Evaluation today published a critical technology assessment of five axis machine tools that examined the health and competitiveness of the U.S. machine tool industry and identified issues relevant to domestic and foreign machine tool...

U.S. Senators Introduce Bill to Sanction Non-U.S. Companies Selling Certain Monitoring or Blocking Technologies to Iran

Posted on July 21, 2009
Yesterday, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced S. 1475, a bill that would impose sanctions on non-U.S. companies that sell technology to Iran that could assist the Iranian regime in monitoring or blocking the Internet connections or cell phone conversations...

U.S. and India Reach Agreement on Defense End-Use Monitoring Arrangements and Space Technology Safeguards

Posted on July 20, 2009
Following meetings between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and India's External Affairs Minister, S.M. Krishna, the two governments today issued a joint statement indicating that the two countries had reached an End-Use Monitoring Agreement on U...

"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed"

Posted on July 20, 2009
Eagle, the Apollo Mission's Lunar Module, landed on the moon exactly 40 years today (4:18 ET). You can listen to the audio clip of Eagle's descent to the moon here (150 seconds). Eagle, and the subsequent lunar modules, were built in Bethpage, New York by Grumman Corporation...

Today Marks 40th Anniverary of Apollo 11 Mission to the Moon

Posted on July 16, 2009
Forty years ago today, at 9:32 am EST, Apollo 11 lifted off from Florida, en route to the moon. The video of the launch is below. To mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, the John F. Kennedy Library is hosting a great website, called We Choose The Moon (www...

OECD Acknowledges Turkey's Progress in Combating Bribery

Posted on July 07, 2009
The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Working Group on Bribery recently issued a report (pdf) (the "Phase 2bis" report) addressing Turkey's progress in complying with the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. The report examined Turkey's progress in the following areas: (1)...

BIS Issues Final Rule Implementing Australia Group Changes, Including Change to ECCN 2B350

Posted on July 07, 2009
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) yesterday published a final rule in the Federal Register to amend the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to implement the 2008 Australia Group (AG) intersessional decisions. Among other things, this final rule makes an important change to Export...

Export Administration Act Policy Hearing to be Held by House Subcommittee

Posted on July 07, 2009
The House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade will hold a hearing on various policy considerations associated with the lapsed Export Administration Act this Thursday at 10 a.m. on July 9th in room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building...

Results of 2008 GSP Annual Review Announced

Posted on July 01, 2009
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk today announced the results of the 2008 Annual Review of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program. The following is a summary of the results: De minimis waivers were granted on 112 products from 16 beneficiary countries...

Tennessee Professor Convicted of Export Control Violations to be Sentenced Tomorrow

Posted on July 01, 2009
After nearly ten months following his conviction of numerous export control violations, retired University of Tennessee professor John Reece Roth will be sentenced tomorrow, July 1, 2009, at 10 a.m. EDT by U.S. District Judge Thomas Varlan in Knoxville, Tennessee...

Guilty Plea in First FCPA Case Involving Vietnam

Posted on July 01, 2009
In the first Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) involving Vietnam, the Justice Department announced yesterday that Joseph T. Lukas, a former executive of Philadelphia-based Nexus Technologies Inc. pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the FCPA and one count of violating the FCPA...

Tennessee Professor Sentenced to 48 Months in Prison for Export Control Violations

Posted on July 01, 2009
Today U.S. District Judge Thomas Varlan sentenced former University of Tennessee Professor John Reece Roth to 48 months in prison for violating the Arms Export Control Act. Following his release from prison, Roth, who is 71, must serve two years of supervised release...

OFAC Issues June 2009 Monthly Civil Penalties Report

Posted on July 01, 2009
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today issued its June 2009 (pdf) monthly report of civil penalties imposed for alleged violations of the sanctions regimes administered by OFAC. OFAC announced the following four settlements with companies, none of which were...

Census Bureau Issues Important AES Export Compliance Notice

Posted on June 30, 2009
U.S. exporters, freight forwarders and other authorized agents filing Electronic Export Information (EEI) using the Automated Export System should be aware that today the Census Bureau's Foreign Trade Division issued an important export compliance notice...

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