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		<title>Malware Attack Targets Defense Exporters</title>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/2040</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A multi-step attack targeting defense exporters was recently reported on Symantec&#8217;s security blog. This ploy first invaded one defense contractor&#8217;s network where it set up a directory on the system for fake press releases. The invaded network was then used to send emails from that network to employees of a second defense contractor. Those emails [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France Refuses U.S. Extradition Request in Export Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 21:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABOVE: Majid Kakavand Color me surprised (not really) but this afternoon a French court rejected the U.S. request to extradite Majid Kakavand, an Iranian alleged to have been involved in the export of U.S.-origin items to Iran through a company he created in Malaysia. This blog has posted on the Kakavand case here, here, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maryland Probation Officer Pleads Guilty to Gun Export Charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 03:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Emenike Charles Nwankwoala, a 49-year-old resident of Laurel, Maryland, pleaded guilty to charges that he exported shotguns, pistols and ammunition to Nigeria without a license. According to the press release from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (&#8220;ICE&#8221;), Nwankwoala had been exporting these items for ten years to Nigeria concealed in shipping containers with automobiles, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Cosmetic Solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the London Evening Standard we have this proposal for new sanctions on Iran to deter that country&#8217;s nuclear ambitions [A]n Israeli journalist has come up with an ingenious idea: a boycott on the export of cosmetics and toiletries to Iran. Apparently, Iran is the world&#8217;s seventh largest consumer of beauty products, spending no less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Website Updates</title>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/1670</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may have noticed, we have recently made a few changes to Export Law Blog. First, we&#8217;ve spiffed up the visual design of the site a bit, having been more or less forced to redesign the look of the site when an update to WordPress nuked our old design. Second, after many requests, we&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrade Blues</title>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/1265</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In upgrading to WordPress 2.9.1 today, I had a bit of a problem and lost some of the files that control how this blog looks. I&#8217;ve recreated most of them, but the blog is still looking a little odd and behaving a bit strangely. I should have time to get everything back in working order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Export Stories of 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/1134</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After seeing that CNN was doing a feature on the top ten YouTube videos of 2009, the staff at Export Law Blog decided that we no longer had an excuse not to recount the top 10 export stories of 2009. However, we can&#8217;t guarantee anything quite as awesome as the YouTube video of the toddler [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update to 11/25/09 Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The previous post, dated November 25, quoted an article in Crain&#8217;s Chicago Business in which an export attorney was quoted as saying: “At the very least, you should have your freight forwarder check compliance, so if they identify a problem, they can stop the order before it ships.” I said in that post that, knowing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worst. Advice. Ever.</title>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/981</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title of this post is not really meant to be hyperbole. The advice given in Crain&#8217;s Chicago Business in an article titled &#8220;Liars and terrorists and drug traffickers, oh my!&#8221; is without doubt the single worst piece of advice on export law that I&#8217;ve ever seen dispensed by anyone: Further complicating matters, export control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BIS Whacks Small Freight Forwarder With Huge Penalty</title>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/551</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bureau of Industry and Security (&#8220;BIS&#8221;) posted yesterday the details of its settlement with Eastways Shipping, a small New-York based freight forwarder. Under the settlement agreement Eastways agreed to pay $70,000 to settle charges that it handled three export shipment of EAR99 scrap metal to Allied Trading Company, a company on BIS&#8217;s Entity List. [...]]]></description>
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