Clif Burns

Clif Burns

One Word Costs a Company $19,800

United Source One, Inc., a Maryland-based food logistics company specializing in food shipments to restaurants in the Middle East, agreed in March to pay a $19,800 penalty to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) for violating BIS’s anti-boycott regulations.…

On Cuba’s Nickel

ABOVE: Nickel Production in Cuba Washington-based trade group Specialty Steel Industry of North America (“SSINA”) marched up to Capitol Hill today to gripe to the House Ways and Means Committee about Cuban nickel being surreptitiously imported into the United States…

Is BIS Now Punishing Thought Crimes?

California-based Telogy LLC (“Telogy”), a distributor of test equipment, agreed last week with the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) to a suspended $76,000 fine in connection with Telogy’s exports of three oscilloscopes and one spectrum analyzer. The fine was…