In a post back in December titled “Imaginary Numbers,” I noted that the list of commodity jurisdiction determinations by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls had some puzzling entries: Three entries on the list, two for a high mobility electron…
Law students always chuckle at forfeiture cases because they have the best names, such as United States v. 3,462 Cans of Tuna Fish or the like. It always seemed so unfair to those cans of tuna to have the entire…
Apparently it is not a job requirement at Immigration and Customs Enforcement to have to understand the laws that you are charged with enforcing, as this recent press release from ICE illustrates all too well. The press release announces the…
Federal Express has agreed to pay to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) a penalty of $370,000 in connection with charges that it aided and abetted one export and five attempted exports between 2004 and 2006 without required export…
Another problem with the arms brokering regulations proposed by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) is their jurisdictional scope, which is impossibly vague and far exceeds the scope of permissible regulation under the Brokering Amendment which was passed by…