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Florida Company Pleads Guilty to Violating FCPA in Connection With Bribes in Honduras and Yemen

Posted on April 07, 2009
The Justice Department announced today that Latin Node Inc. (Latinode), a privately held Florida telecommunications company, pleaded guilty today to a one-count information charging that the company violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act's anti-bribery provisions...

Japanese Technology and Instruments Believed to be Used by North Korea in Missile Development

Posted on April 06, 2009
Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reports how North Korea acquired the controlled technology and products from Japan that was likely used in developing the missile launched on Sunday. The article notes that at "a U.S. Senate hearing in May 2003, an engineer who had defected from North Korea...

Two Defendants Plead Guilty in Unrelated Cases Involving Illegally Exported Military Aircraft Parts

Posted on April 06, 2009
Last week two defendants in unrelated cases pleaded guilty to violations involving the unlicensed export of military aircraft parts from the United States. In Hartford, Connecticut, Stuart Wax, pleaded guilty today to one count of making a false statement in an export control document...

Eleven Defendants Charged In Scheme to Export Military Aircraft Parts to Iran

Posted on April 06, 2009
In yet another criminal case involving the prohibited exports of military aircraft to Iran, the Justice Department announced today that an Iranian national has been arrested and charged, along with ten other defendants, with participating in a conspiracy to military aircraft parts from the U...

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Webinar: Catching the Tiger by its Tail: Creating Effective and Efficient Internal Export Compliance Programs

Posted on April 06, 2009
Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg is presenting a webinar on how to create effective and efficient export compliance programs from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. EDT on April 16, 2009. This webinar, which is presented by experienced export attorneys, will present information on how to create and implement an...

U.S. Government Condemns North Korea Rocket Launch; Additional Multilateral Sanctions Possible

Posted on April 05, 2009
The U.S. Government quickly reacted to North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket Taepo Dong 2 missile. The U.S. Northern Command said that the stage one of the missile fell into the Sea of Japan and the remaining stages, along with the payload, landed in the Pacific Ocean...

OFAC to Hold First-Ever International Trade Symposium in Washington, DC

Posted on April 05, 2009
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) recently announced that it is holding its first-ever International Trade Symposium on May 15, 2009 in Washington, DC. According to OFAC, the free Symposium is "designed to provide the international trade community with insight and...

DDTC to Launch DTrade2 License Submission System on April 16th

Posted on April 05, 2009
U.S. exporters of defense articles and technical data should be aware that the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls will be launching DTrade2, its new electronic license submission and internal case management system, on April 16, 2009. Starting on April 16, 2009, all new license submissions must...

UAE Forms Import-Export Control Committee

Posted on April 05, 2009
The Emirates News Agency reported today that the United Arab Emirates Government approved the formation a "committee on the commodities subject to import-export control" to "cooperate and coordinate with the relevant authorities on the regulations relating to import and export, to study proposals...

"Black Money" Documentary to Air April 7th on PBS

Posted on April 02, 2009
Black Money, a FRONTLINE documentary on international bribery, will air Tuesday, April 7, 2009, at 9 P.M. EDT on PBS. The documentary investigates the shadowy side of international business, shedding light on multinational companies that have routinely made secret payments?often referred to as...

Wall Street Journal Article on UAE Nuclear Deal Addresses Export Control Concerns

Posted on April 01, 2009
Thursday's Wall Street Journal contains an extensive story entitled "Oil-Rich Arab State Pushes Nuclear Bid With U.S. Help" on the United Arab Emirate's (UAE) efforts to build a commercial nuclear power facility and the upcoming debate in Congress on the Agreement for Cooperation Concerning...

For U.S. Satellite Makers, a Bid for a Bailout That Wouldn?t Cost Billions

Posted on April 01, 2009
In anticipation of tomorrow's House International Relations Subcommittee hearing on possible reforms to export controls on commercial satellites, today's New York Times contained a good article entitled "For U.S. Satellite Makers, a Bid for a Bailout That Wouldn?t Cost Billions"...

Israel Becomes Signatory to OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

Posted on April 01, 2009
Israel recently became the 38th signatory to the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions. The OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, which entered into force on...

House Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on Export Controls on Satellite Technology

Posted on March 27, 2009
Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affair's Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade Brad Sherman (D-CA) has announced that the subcommittee will hold a hearing next week on U.S. export controls on satellite technology...

Commerce Department Makes Antidumping Determination on Line Pipe From China

Posted on March 25, 2009
The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) yesterday announced its affirmative final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on imports of circular welded carbon quality steel line pipe from the People?s Republic of China. Welded line pipe is used for the transmission of gas or oil,...

Senate Confirms Gary Locke as Secretary of Commerce

Posted on March 25, 2009
The third time was the charm. The United States Senate last night confirmed Gary Locke as the nation?s 36th Commerce Secretary by unanimous consent. Locke was elected Washington State?s 21st governor in 1996, making him the first Chinese American governor in U...

Irish Trading Company and Three Individuals Indicted in Connection With Scheme to Export Aircraft Parts to Iran

Posted on March 25, 2009
The Justice Department announced yesterday that Mac Aviation Group, an Irish trading company, and three of its officers were charged in Federal Court in Washington, DC with purchasing helicopter engines and other aircraft components from U.S. firms and illegally exporting them to Iran using...

House, Senate Launch Efforts to Change Cuba Trade Policy

Posted on March 19, 2009
The following story was reprinted with permission from today's edition of World Trade\INTERACTIVE?, published by Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg: House, Senate Launch Efforts to Change Cuba Trade Policy Efforts to ease trade with Cuba are beginning to move forward in Congress...

2009 Americas Annual Letter of Credit Survey Conference to be Held Next Week in Charlotte

Posted on March 19, 2009
For those exporters and others interested in letters of credit issues it is not too late to register for next week's 2009 Americas Annual Letter of Credit Survey conference that will be held March 26 and 27, 2009 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Annual Letter of Credit Survey is the premier...

Senate Confirms Ron Kirk as Next USTR; Senate Holds Secretary of Commerce Confirmation Hearing

Posted on March 18, 2009
Ron Kirk was confirmed by the Senate today to be the next U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). The vote was 92-5. As USTR, Kirk is member of President Obama?s Cabinet and will serve as the President?s principal trade advisor, negotiator and spokesperson on international trade issues...

OFAC Publishes Cuba Family Travel Q&As

Posted on March 18, 2009
The Treasury Department's Foreign Assets Control today published a series of Questions and Answers regarding the implementation of the General License issued by the Office of Foreign Assets Control on March 11, 2009 that permits certain visits to family in Cuba...

2009 International Trade Outlook Webinar to be Presented on March 19, 2009

Posted on March 17, 2009
On Thursday, March 19, 2009, Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg is presenting a 2009 Trade Outlook webinar. The webinar, which will take place from 1 - 2 p.m. EDT, will address the various changes that may be in store for U.S. trade policy in the coming year, including: Trade Priorities of the Obama...

U.S. Export Assistance Center to Present Introduction to Export Controls Webinar on March 18, 2009

Posted on March 16, 2009
Are you new to exporting? It is not too late to register for the introduction to export controls webinar that is being presented by the U.S. Export Assistance Center of Missouri on March 18, 2009 at 11 a.m. CDT. This program is the final program in the U...

Incoterms 3000 Scheduled to be Issued in Fall 2010

Posted on March 11, 2009
In an interview with International Trade Law News, Frank Reynolds, the U.S. Delegate to the International Chamber of Commerce's (ICC) Incoterm's drafting committee, said that the revised version of Incoterms 2000 should be released in the fall of 2010...

New Details Emerge in Florida Export Controls Case

Posted on March 11, 2009
Some new details have emerged in the recent story regarding Joseph Piquet's conviction on seven counts of attempting to export ITAR-controlled power amplifiers to China. Piquet faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and more than $4 million in fines when he is sentenced in May...

Chris Wall, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration Rejoins Former Law Firm

Posted on March 11, 2009
Christopher R. Wall, who recently served as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration in the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has rejoined the Pillsbury law firm as senior international trade partner in the firm's Washington, DC office...

Washington Post: U.S. to Toughen Its Stance On Trade

Posted on March 10, 2009
Following yesterday's confirmation hearing for U.S. Trade Representative nominee Ron Kirk, today's Washington Post reports on the Obama Administration's proposed changes to U.S. Trade Policy: Even as world trade takes its steepest drop in 80 years amid the global economic crisis, the administration...

Florida Jury Convicts Defendant for Conspiring to Violate U.S. Export Control Laws

Posted on March 09, 2009
A jury in Fort Pierce, Florida last week convicted a defendant of seven counts of conspiring to violate U.S. export control laws. Mr. Joseph Piquet, who will be sentenced on May 14, 2009, was convicted of attempting to purchase military use electronic components from Northrop Grumman Corporation...

Do You Have the "Compliance Blues"?

Posted on March 09, 2009
For those of you following our Twitter feed, International Trade Law News is attending this week's International Trade Compliance Professionals annual conference in Anaheim, California. In honor of all of the hard working trade compliance professionals out there I am posting the music and lyrics...

BIS Issues First Version of Commodity Classification Information Table

Posted on March 05, 2009

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