Tacoma-based Service Steel Aerospace Corp. recently agreed to pay a $12,000 fine to the Bureau of Industry and Security arising out of exports of titanium rods to Israel and Mexico. The company had voluntarily disclosed to BIS that it had…
ABOVE: Purchase the teapot for $1200 directly from the artistsMike Leavitt and Charles Krafft The State Department issued last week its annual Country Reports on Terrorism for 2009. Originally scheduled for release on April 30th, the report was inexplicably delayed…
The over-burdened Office of Antiboycott Compliance (“OAC”) at the Bureau of Industry and Security, which engaged in all of three enforcement actions in 2009, is gunning for a record this year having just released its tenth settlement agreement for 2010.…
Just last week, I reported on guidelines newly issued by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) relating to the use of blocked assets to pay attorneys fees to challenge orders blocking those assets. And I was more than a…
ABOVE: Kevin Wolf Today’s edition of the Washington Tariff & Trade Letter has an article (paid subscription required) reporting on the July 27 meeting of the Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committee of the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”).…