A recently filed criminal complaint accuses a former U.S. soldier of using eBay to export military items he obtained while serving in Iraq. Specifically, the defendant is accused of the unlicensed export of an Atilla-200 laser aiming device to Japan.…
Usually criminal export defendants are in the dock for exports of night vision, stun guns, or high-tech chemical processing equipment. Today we have criminal defendants who were indicted for exporting insufficiently chilled chickens from Pascagoula, Mississippi to Russia, proving, I…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) recently released documents detailing a settlement that it entered into with Mattson Technologies relating to Mattson’s unlicensed exports of pressure transducers classified under ECCN 2B230. That ECCN covers pressure transducers with pressure sensing…
A long article published today on the Bloomberg News website tells the story of a voluntary disclosure by Georgia Tech after one of its instructors inadvertently posted some export-controlled data on the Internet. The article follows this anecdote up with…
Last week the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) added three parties to the Entity List and imposed license requirements for exports, re-exports and in country transfers to these parties for all items subject to the Export Administration Regulations, i.e.,…