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”…
ABOVE: Majid Kakavand Color me surprised (not really) but this afternoon a French court rejected the U.S. request to extradite Majid Kakavand, an Iranian alleged to have been involved in the export of U.S.-origin items to Iran through a company…
Last week Emenike Charles Nwankwoala, a 49-year-old resident of Laurel, Maryland, pleaded guilty to charges that he exported shotguns, pistols and ammunition to Nigeria without a license. According to the press release from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), Nwankwoala had…
From the London Evening Standard we have this proposal for new sanctions on Iran to deter that country’s nuclear ambitions [A]n Israeli journalist has come up with an ingenious idea: a boycott on the export of cosmetics and toiletries to…
A court battle raging between Italian company Tiber Aviation s.r.l. and Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. turns on whether Tiber was actually intending to ship a helicopter to Iran or whether Bell told that story to a special agent of the…