ABOVE: H5N1 virus Civil disobedience and export laws: those are two concepts not often linked together. But it appears that a Dutch researcher on the H5N1 avian virus is planning to tell Dutch authorities to take a hike and will…
In the last release of civil penalty information, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced that it whacked Essie Cosmetics Ltd. with a whopping $450,000 fine for exports the company made to Iran in violation of the U.S. embargo…
The State Department’s Bureau of International Security and Non-Proliferation released today a fact sheet celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Missile Technology Control Regime, a multilateral initiative to control the export and dissemination of certain missile related technology. The MTCR…
Apparently international research on how best to prevent, contain and treat bird flu is now threatened by international laws restricting export of information relating to potential agents of biological warfare according to this report on NPR. The problem concerns research…
This blog reported on March 29 that OFAC had provided guidance on various technologies eligible for export to Iran as incidental to the exchange of personal communication over the Internet. Most significantly, OFAC indicated a willingness to permit certain fee-based…