Gustavo Petro, the former President of Colombia, was planning a little trip to Mexico. He booked a flight on Avianca, Colombia’s national airline. But before he could even get settled in his seat and start sipping champagne, Avianca cancelled his…
Container Manufacturing, Ltd., based in Dayton, Ohio, was charged by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) with exporting equipment valued at $264,721 and used in the manufacture of aluminum beverage cans to a company in Russia. According to the…
Recent reports suggest that BIS is considering eliminating a “loophole” under which China remotely accesses in foreign countries high-performance AI servers that could not themselves be exported to China. That would not be eliminating a loophole; rather it would be…
Plexon, Inc., a small neuroscience company located in Dallas, Texas, has agreed to pay $1.7 million in civil penalties to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) for the export of equipment, allegedly classified as 4A994.k. and referred to as…
As part of the announcement of today’s “Economic D-Day Against Iran,” the Office of Foreign Asset Controls (“OFAC”) announced a revocation of certain general licenses under the Iran sanctions. Most of them have to do with exceptions relating to educational…