This blog reported in detail back in March of this year on the prosecution of Henderson Chua, a Philippine citizen, arising from his importation of military drone parts into the United States. Based on information in the indictment, it seemed…
The Brookings Institution just issued a brief report entitled “Addressing Export Control in the Age of Cloud Computing.” The report raises more issues than it answers, which is not surprising given the brevity of the report and the uncertain state…
Back in February, this blog lamented the change in the format of the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) on the website of the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”). The agency deleted the PDF version of the regulations, which was clearly…
Nothing much of interest at the Sanctions breakout yesterday during the 2011 Update conference held by the Bureau of Industry and Security. The panel members included two people from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) who went over some…
This afternoon I was at Update 2011, the conference held every year in DC by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”). One of the break-out sessions dealt with the new license exception STA and, needless to say, it was…