Clif Burns

Clif Burns

Check The List Or Go To School

Kesco Shipping Corporation and Multi-Link Container Line, a freight forwarder and a shipping line respectively, have agreed to pay $28,000 to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) to settle charges that they aided an unlicensed export of scrap steel,…

Your Tax Dollars At Work

ABOVE: Zachary Sanders A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a young American teaching English in Mexico decided to take a trip to Cuba. Today, after fourteen years of legal maneuvering with the Department of Treasury’s Office…

Double Jeopardy?

A colleague brought back an interesting tidbit from the BIS Update Conference last week relating to one of the unresolved conundrums of the current export reform efforts. Under the currently proposed reforms, certain items on the United States Munitions List…

Odds and Ends

Here are some odds and ends that I’ve been saving up for a post: If you speak Farsi, it’s easier to buy an iPad in Tehran than in Atlanta Customs agents at Canadian border keep America safe and pitch a…

Better Get An Export License For That Belt

A Wisconsin-based company, with the appealing name Humane Restraints, Inc., recently agreed to settle charges that it exported without licenses various restraining items worth approximately $15,000 and classified under ECCN 0A982. Pursuant to the settlement agreement, Humane Restraints agreed to…