A superseding indictment was released last week that charged a Belgian citizen and resident with violating U.S. export laws by transshipping items from the United States to Iran through Belgium. This indictment is, in many respects, typical of the increasing…
Several readers have asked that I alert them about speaking engagements. I will be in LA next week on Tuesday and Wednesday for breakfast briefings sponsored by Bryan Cave (naturally) and the U.S. Commercial Service of the Department of Commerce.…
Each time a company tries to tout its registration under Part 122 of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, the claims for the meaning of this registration become more and more outlandish. Scaling peaks not yet scaled by an other…
On Sunday, the New York Times revealed that the UAE had hired Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, to provide certain training service in the Emirates. The Times described them this way: The force is intended to conduct special operations…
ABOVE: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and outspoken critic of any changes to the U.S. embargo on Cuba, today announced her opposition to the Obama administration’s proposed export control reforms. Ultimately, new legislative…