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		<title>The Man from Del Monte, He Says &#8220;Yes!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/527</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued its slip opinion in Del Monte Fresh Produce Company v. United States.  The appeals court reversed a lower court ruling that had dismissed a case filed by Del Monte against the Department of Treasury&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control (&#8221;OFAC&#8221;) alleging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tillery Trickery Docked . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ . . . to the tune of $6,600.  In the civil penalties information released today by the Treasury Department&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control (&#8221;OFAC&#8221;), the agency reported that Willbros, a Texas-based oil and gas drilling services company, paid $6,600 to settle charges that the company 
through a former Senior Vice President, willfully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MTN-Bharti Deal Scares Some OFAC-Wary Bankers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A report on Reuters today raised some interesting issues with respect to the MTN-Bharti deal.  The merger, which would create the world&#8217;s third largest wireless telephone company, is creating some heartburn for U.S. bankers who&#8217;d like to get a piece of this action. The reason for the heartburn:  South African wireless operator MTN [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sanctions Sought Against Companies Providing Telcom Equipment to Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/524</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though Iran&#8217;s mobile phone infrastructure was crucial to the ability of Iranians to send to the outside world video, still images and first-hand reports of the events in Iran, Senators Chuck Schumer and Lindsey Graham think it&#8217;s a good idea to impose sanctions on two European companies that provided equipment used by Iran&#8217;s mobile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Hear your fate, O dwellers in Flint of the wide spaces&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/523</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Michigan-based Delphi Corporation, maker of auto parts and systems, agreed to a $50,000 suspended fine in connection of three exports of triethanolamine to the PRC and to South Africa.  The fine will be suspended for a year provided that Delphi commits no further violations and will be waived thereafter. The fine was the result [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chips Ahoy!</title>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/522</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[More U.S. computer chips have been sighted in Iran, this time some AMD Opteron Dual Core microprocessors that the Aerospace Research Institute  of Iran (&#8221;ARI&#8221;) touts it has incorporated into what passes for a supercomputer in Iran.  The ARI is affiliated with the Iranian government and conducts research on missile technology.
A spokesman for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will The Revolution Be Twitterized?</title>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/521</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[According to this report in the Wall Street Journal, the State Department asked Twitter to delay again a previously scheduled downtime on the service because of unfolding events in Iran.  Twitter itself had delayed the first scheduled downtime. Twitter, however, ignored State&#8217;s request to delay the downtime again, cryptically noting in its blog that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seventh Circuit Reverses Export Conviction In Rifle Scope Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed* a federal district court conviction of Doli Syarief Pulungan for attempted unlicensed exports of rifles copes to Indonesia in violation of the Arms Export Control Act.  I previously reported on Mr. Pulungan&#8217;s case here and here.  
The decision can only be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BIS Claims Higher Penalties Haven&#8217;t Slowed Voluntary Disclosures</title>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/519</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[According to an article (subscription required) in today&#8217;s Inside U.S. Trade, an official of the Bureau of Industry and Security (&#8221;BIS&#8221;) told an agency advisory committee that the significant increases in penalties enacted by Congress in 2006 for export violations has not deterred exporters from filing voluntary self disclosures of export violations.   Thomas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Nominee Favors Return of Satellite Issues to Commerce</title>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/518</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ABOVE: Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher

In connection with the Senate confirmation hearing for Ellen Tauscher on Tuesday morning, Senator Lugar, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, released a pre-hearing questionnaire completed by the proposed nominee.  Representative Tauscher has been nominated by President Obama to become Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International [...]]]></description>
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