In tomorrow’s Federal Register, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security will propose, as part of the export reform initiative, a new license exception called the Strategic Trade Authorization (STA). The new license exception will eliminate current license…
California-based AEM, an electronics manufacturer which produces, among other things, hi-rel fuses used in military and commercial satellites filed a complaint in federal district court on November 12 alleging that a determination by the Directorate of Defense Controls (“DDTC”) that…
ABOVE: D&R Sports Center Mark Komoroski, owner of D&R Sports Center in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in August 2009 to illegally exporting rifle scopes and other optics to Russia. He was sentenced to 32 months in jail and ordered to…
ABOVE: Armenian President SerzhSarkisian According to one of the Wikileak cables published by the Guardian, Armenia, in 2003, sold machine guns and rockets to Iran which were later used in a fatal attack on U.S. forces in Iraq by Shia…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) recently imposed a temporary denial order (“TDO”) on Singapore-based Anvik Technologies, and its owner Babak Jafarpour. The TDO is based on evidence that BIS alleges that it has demonstrating that Anvik and Jafarpour…