This blog reported back in January on the removal of various Indian companies and organizations from the Entity List. This removal eliminated the requirement for licenses for certain exports to the removed companies that might not have otherwise required licenses.…
NJ-based Swiss Technology, Inc. was sentenced yesterday to probation in connection with its guilty plea last July to charges that it violated the Arms Export Control Act when it exported diagrams of military rifle parts to China for manufacture there.…
There was more fallout from the PPG case today. Xun Wang, who was the former manager of the Shanghai subsidiary of PPG, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in connection with…
On November 7, the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) published its second iteration of the proposed rules on aircraft and aircraft components as part of the White House’s export control reform initiative. As with the first iteration, published back…
I’m not quite sure what to make of this story of a Fulbright scholar in Norway who appears to get caught up in an OFAC-screening imbroglio and can’t pay her rent. Fortunately, the problem mysteriously disappeared before she winds up…