Clif Burns

Clif Burns

How The OFAC Stole Christmas

A spokesman for the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) told Export Law Blog this morning that discussions between OFAC and the North Pole over Santa Claus’s Christmas Eve itinerary had broken down and were not expected to…

And It Just Gets Worse and Worse

On Monday we talked about the lump of coal the Directorate of Defense Trade Control (“DDTC”) is delivering to export lawyers for Christmas in the proposed new brokering rules that appear to require export lawyers to register as brokers and…

Call Kevin Wolf

ABOVE: Kevin Wolf Who says you never have gotten to talk to an Assistant Secretary of Commerce? Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 14, 2011, you can dial up Kevin Wolf at 2:00 p.m. to discuss the White House’s current export reform proposals.…

This and That

Here are a few things worthy of your attention. The ACI’s Second National EAR Boot Camp is coming up and will be held in Dallas on January 25 and 26, 2012. Export Law Blog readers who mention discount code EB200…