ABOVE: ANSI offices in DC The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) recently sent a letter of guidance to the American National Standards Institute (“ANSI”) stating that U.S. participation in international standards organizations, such as the ISO and the ITU,…
Lots of news lately on Iran sanctions, so here’s a summary and some links. Here’s a link to the OFAC letter we mentioned last week disputing some of the charges made by the New York State Department of Financial Services…
ABOVE: DDTC offices in DC The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) has just revised its guidance on licensing foreign persons employed by U.S. persons. Foreign persons that will have access to ITAR-controlled technical data need to be licensed by…
If for some reason or other you were thinking that perhaps the next time you were in Dunhill’s in Paris or London you might just slip a few Cubans into your briefcase and bring them back to the U.S., think…
Two weeks ago I reported on a settlement agreement between two shipping companies and the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) with respect to unlicensed exports of scrap steel to People Steel Mill, a company in Pakistan on BIS’s Entity…