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Heritage Foundation to Host Program on Dual-Use Export Controls To China on February 20, 2008

Posted on February 17, 2008
The Heritage Foundation is hosting a program on dual-use export controls to China in Washington, DC on February 20, 2008. The program will feature a keynote address by Mario Mancuso, Undersecretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, followed by a panel discussion with the following individuals:...

Twelve Business Organizations Express Concerns Over Deemed Export Advisory Committee's Recommendations

Posted on February 15, 2008
Twelve trade-related business organizations today sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez expressing their concerns with several recommendations contained in the Deemed Export Advisory Committee's (DEAC) December 20, 2007 report. The letter also warned of the significant...

Which Members of Congress Support Free Trade?

Posted on February 15, 2008
Yesterday the Cato Institute unveiled "Free Trade, Free Markets: Rating the Congress", a web site that allows users to examine how Congress and its individual members have voted on bills and amendments affecting trade and investment during the past five sessions of Congress...

When Trade and Security Collide

Posted on February 14, 2008
The Wall Street Journal published an interesting article today entitled "Two U.S. Goals Collide: Free Trade, Security". The article describes how the stepped-up enforcement of laws restricting the release of sensitive technology exports to China and Iran can conflict with efforts to reform and...

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OFAC Issues Guidance on Entities Owned By Persons Whose Property And Interests In Property Are Blocked

Posted on February 14, 2008
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today issued a document entitled "Guidance on Entities Owned By Persons Whose Property And Interests In Property Are Blocked." While this guidance applies to most of OFAC's sanctions programs, this guidance was sought by banks,...

Ways and Means Approves Extension of Andean Trade Preferences Act Only

Posted on February 14, 2008
Today's mark-up of H.R. 5264, the Trade Preference Extension Act of 2008, by the House Ways and Committee took an interesting last-minute twist. Rather than extending the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA), Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) and Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) programs until...

President Issues Executive Order Expanding Sanctions on Syria

Posted on February 13, 2008
President Bush today issued an Executive Order (EO) expanding sanctions on Syria by blocking the property of certain senior Syrian Government officials and their associates who have engaged in or benefited from public corruption. The EO also revises a provision in Executive Order 13338 to block...

Iranians Elude Sanctions

Posted on February 13, 2008
Today's Wall Street Journal contains a good overview of the effect of U.S. and multilateral economic sanctions on Iran, the methods used by Iranian business to elude such sanctions and the resulting problems that are created. The article notes that the sanctions: ...

House Ways and Means Committee to Mark-Up Trade Preference Extension Act of 2008

Posted on February 13, 2008
The House Ways and Means Committee will meet at 11 a.m. on February 14, 2008 to mark-up H.R. 5264, the Trade Preference Extension Act of 2008. As previously reported, H.R. 5264 would extend the Andean Trade Preference, Caribbean Basin Initiative and Generalized System of Preferences programs, all...

Machine Tools Producer Installs Relocation Detectors to Ensure Export Controls Compliance

Posted on February 12, 2008
In what could be the wave of the future in export compliance by producers of export controlled products, Mazak Corporation, the North American manufacturing, sales and support arm of Japan-based Yamazaki Mazak Corporation recently announced that it has begun installing relocation detectors on all...

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos Dies at 80

Posted on February 11, 2008
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos (D-CA) passed away this morning due to complications from cancer at Bethesda Naval Medical Center. Congressman Lantos, who was born in Hungary and is the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress, was first elected to the U...

U.S. Arrests Four People for Engaging in Economic Espionage Involving China

Posted on February 11, 2008
The Justice Department today announced arrests in two separate cases involving in economic espionage charges involving China. In the first case, Tai Shen Kuo, age 58, and Yu Xin Kang, age 33, both of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Gregg William Bergersen, age 51, of Alexandria, Virginia, were...

Heritage Foundation Issues Policy Papers on U.S. Defense Trade Cooperation Treaties and President's Export Controls Directive

Posted on February 11, 2008
The Heritage Foundation, a Washington, DC-based think tank, recently issued policy papers analyzing the Defense Trade Cooperation Treaties that the U.S. signed with Australia and the United Kingdom and President Bush's recently issued Export Controls Directive...

President Bush Proposes to Increase BIS Funding for Fiscal Year 2009

Posted on February 10, 2008
President Bush's recently proposed budget for fiscal year (FY) 2009 would restore funding to the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) that Congress reduced for FY 2008. The President's FY 2009 budget requests $83,676,000 million for BIS...

House Bill Introduced to Extend ATPA, CBI and GSP Benefits Until 2010

Posted on February 10, 2008
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) last week introduced H.R. 5264, the Trade Preference Extension Act of 2008, a bill that would extend three trade preference programs scheduled to expire this year. H.R. 5264 would would extend the following trade preference programs...

OFAC Set to Bring Enforcement Actions Against Sudan Sanctions Violators

Posted on February 08, 2008
Reuters reports today that the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) will soon bring a number of civil enforcement actions against companies that have violated U.S. sanctions on Sudan. The article quotes OFAC Director Adam Szubin as saying that: "Agents had built up a...

New Approach to Antiboycott Settlements? BIS Waives Penalties in Exchange for Ceasing Exports to Boycotting Countries

Posted on February 08, 2008
By Douglas N. Jacobson and Laura Martino In what appears to be a new twist in the settlement of antiboycott enforcement cases, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently agreed to waive civil penalties against two U.S. distributors of medical products for violating the antiboycott...

"First Sale" Rule Comment Period Extended to April 23, 2008

Posted on February 07, 2008
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) today announced in the Federal Register that it will extend the deadline for interested parties to submit comments on CBP's proposed change to the interpretation of the phrase "sold for exportation to the United States'' for purposes of applying the...

BIS Announces Initial Steps to Implement Deemed Export Advisory Committee Recommendations

Posted on February 06, 2008
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced today that it has completed its review of the Deemed Export Advisory Committee's (DEAC) December 20, 2007 report and has started working with the Departments of Defense, State and Energy to consider the report's analysis and recommendations as a...

BIS Publishes "Fix-It" Rule Correcting Errors in Parts 742 and 744 of the EAR and Categories 1, 3, 6 and 7 of the CCL

Posted on February 06, 2008
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a "fix-it" final rule in today's Federal Register correcting a number of errors contained in the November 5, 2007 final rule that implemented changes to the Commerce Control List (CCL) as a result of the Wassenaar Arrangement's 2006 plenary...

December NCITD Meeting to Focus on ITAR Exemptions and OFAC

Posted on February 05, 2008
The National Council on International Trade Development's (NCITD) February 14, 2008 meeting in Washington, DC will feature the following speakers:Ms. Debi Davis, Goodrich Corporation's Vice President of International Trade, will speak on the Industry Perspective on ITAR...

BIS Announces New AES Reporting Requirements for License Exceptions

Posted on February 05, 2008
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has announced a new Automated Export System (AES) reporting requirement for exporters using certain license exceptions. Effective April 28, 2008, it will be mandatory to report the Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) on the AES record when using ...

CBP Extends Comment Period on 10+2 Data Elements

Posted on February 04, 2008
We recently reported that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a proposed rulemaking on January 2, 2008 regarding the submission of advanced trade data elements for importers and carriers (commonly referred to as "10+2"). CBP announced in the Federal Register last Friday that it is...

C-TPAT: 2007 in Review

Posted on January 31, 2008
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) today issued an overview and assessment of the operations of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program in 2007. The year end review contained the following statistics regarding the C-TPAT program during calendar year 2007:Supply...

Politco Provides Behind-the-Scene Look at Efforts Leading to Issuance of Export Controls Directives

Posted on January 31, 2008
In an article entitled "High-tech lobby notches victory", today's The Politico, provides a behind-the-scenes look at the efforts leading to last week's Export Controls Directives issued by President Bush. The article notes that: The directives, announced by the State and Commerce departments, were...

WCO Seeks Input on Rules of Origin Database

Posted on January 31, 2008
The World Customs Organization (WCO) is developing a database of preferential trade arrangements and related rules of origin. To assist the WCO in its development process, the WCO has prepared an online survey in order to obtain the the views of all interested parties and to ensure that the...

OFAC Imposes Additional Targeted Sanctions on Zimbabwe

Posted on January 30, 2008
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed new sanctions today on two Zimbabwean entities and two individuals that, according to OFAC, "contribute to the undermining of democratic processes and institutions in Zimbabwe"...

Colombia, Panama and South Korea Free Trade Agreements Face Uphill Battle in Congress

Posted on January 30, 2008
The Politico, a Washington, DC-based newspaper and website which covers politics and lobbying, reports that the President's efforts to convince Congress to approve the Colombia, Panama and South Korea Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) faces serious resistance from the Democratic leadership...

Center for International Trade and Security to Hold Export Control Academy

Posted on January 29, 2008
The University of Georgia's Center for International Trade and Security (CITS) has announced that the Spring 2008 sessions of its Export Control Academy will take place from March 31-April 4 and April 7-11, 2008 The Academy provides a comprehensive overview of export control concepts, issues and...

Arrests in Mariana for Unlicensed Exports to China

Posted on January 28, 2008
Two suspects were arrested this weekend for allegedly exporting certain defense items from the United States to the People?s Republic of China without a license from the U.S. State Department. The exported articles were reportedly monolithic amplifiers (i...

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