Don’t Forget Palau
As reliable as the appearance of fall foliage and jack-o-lanterns, another fall ritual took place earlier this afternoon in New York City. The United Nations voted, yet again, to condemn the U.S. ban on exports to Cuba, as it has…
Clif Burns
Voluntary Disclosure Leads To Large Fine
Illinois-based Littlefuse, Inc., which, not surprisingly, makes fuses, filed a voluntary disclosure with the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) relating to 37 unlicensed exports, worth $90,017.96, to the Philippines (presumably its own manufacturing facility there.) In return for its…
T Minus 180 and Counting
I suppose it was inevitable. The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) today announced a proposed rule that would require that a final voluntary disclosure be filed within 180 days after the filing of the initial notification. Currently there is…
The Gripes of Roth
ABOVE: Professor Reece Roth General news media reports on export law matters, and particularly on export law criminal proceedings, are often riddled with substantive errors about export law. A reader brought to my attention this Bloomberg Businessweek article on the…
House Committe Demands GAO Investigation of NASA Export Controls
ABOVE: Rep. Paul Broun U.S. Representative Paul Broun, Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, recently sent a letter to the Government Accounting Office requesting that it conduct an investigation into NASA’s export control program. He bases…