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…
Another day; another export compliance nightmare. First it was cloud computing and now it is . . . copy machines. Seriously. An alert reader pointed me to this CBS News story about hard drives found in almost all copy machines…
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…
ABOVE: Majid Kakavand So once Majid Kakavand hot-footed it back into Iran, after French authorities denied the United States government’s request for his extradition from France, this was pretty much the first thing out of his mouth Given that I…
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”), the State Department agency responsible for licensing exports of defense articles, has issued new guidance to scold export license applicants for not using precise names legal names in license applications. Like confusing “that”…