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		<title>Some Things Change; Some Things Don&#8217;t</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what has changed at OFAC.  Yesterday OFAC announced a general license for Iran and Sudan that would permit export of
certain services and software incident to the exchange of personal communications over the Internet, such as instant messaging, chat and email, social networking, sharing of photos and movies, web browsing, and blogging.
To be eligible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/1418</link>
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		<title>Now You See It, Now You Don&#8217;t</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I was seeing things.  First, I read a notice on the website of the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (&#8220;DDTC&#8221;) saying that DDTC was putting a temporary hold on export licenses where BAE Systems was an applicant or manufacturer while the agency studied BAE&#8217;s recent guilty plea to charges that it paid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/1410</link>
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		<title>Global Recession Hits Criminal Arms Merchants Too</title>
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ABOVE: Monzer al-Kassar

An article that I just noticed in the February 8 issue of The New Yorker, tells the fascinating story of a D.E.A. sting operation conducted in Spain against Monzer al-Kassar, the notorious arms dealer alleged to have sold weapons both to the Achille Lauro terrorists and to the United States as part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/1399</link>
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		<title>Iran Obtains Centrifuge Equipment from Swiss Firm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A fascinating AP story, which so far has not been picked up by any AP affiliate newspapers, provides detailed information about how 103 pressure transducers made their way from Inficon, a Swiss firm, to Iran where, presumably, they will be used in Iran&#8217;s allegedly peaceful uranium enrichment program.  The story, not surprisingly, involves a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/1389</link>
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		<title>Balli Exec Tells Alma Mater His Defense to Iran Export Charges</title>
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ABOVE: Valid
Alaghband

Valid Alaghband, Chairman of the Balli Group, which just agreed to  a $17 million fine to settle charges that it exported U.S.-origin commercial passenger aircraft to Iran, took to the pages of the daily student newspaper of his alma mater Cornell University to present his side of the story.  Frankly, his story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/1378</link>
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		<title>ITT Debarment Lifted Two Months Early</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (&#8220;DDTC) published a notice in the Federal Register that the three-year statutory debarment of ITT Night Vision, scheduled to end on March 26, 2010, was ended effective February 4, 2010.  DDTC noted, in justifying the early termination, noted that
ITT Corporation has taken appropriate steps to address [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/1375</link>
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		<title>More Deemed Export Red Tape Courtesy of BCIS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DHS&#8217;s Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (&#8220;BCIS&#8221;) wants to make your life more difficult if you hire H-1B workers and need a deemed export license to do so.   Under a proposed revision in the form used to apply for H-1B visas for skilled technical workers, employers will now need to obtain the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/1366</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Believe Everything You Read in Newsweek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Tabler, who works for a Washington-based think tank on the Middle East wrote a column in today&#8217;s web-edition of Newsweek on the appointment by the Obama administration of a new Ambassador to Syria &#8212; the first since 2005 &#8212; and what that might mean for U.S. sanctions on Syria.   According to Tabler [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/1352</link>
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		<title>BIS Assesses Maximum Possible Fine Against Exporter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For several years now the Bureau of Industry and Security (&#8220;BIS&#8221;) has had the statutory authority to impose a civil penalty of $250,000 per export violation but has yet impose anything near that fine.  So when BIS finally whacks someone with a $2.5 million fine for 10 violations, you might assume that the person [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/1344</link>
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		<title>Company Agrees to $12.5 Million Fine For Predecessor&#8217;s Exports</title>
		<description><![CDATA[North Carolina based law enforcement supply company Sirchie has signed, and a federal court has entered, a deferred prosecution agreement under which Sirchie agreed to pay $12.6 million in penalties with $2 million of those penalties going to the Department of Commerce&#8217;s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS&#8221;).   The penalties arise from conduct [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/1328</link>
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