The Places You’d Rather Not Be
OFAC's $735,407 fine of Hilton for hotels in Sudan may exceed the agency's authority.
Clif Burns
(Ran)Somalia Payments and OFAC
Last week I posted on the new Somalia “smart” sanctions and noted that the concerns by the maritime industry that the new sanctions would prohibit ransom payments were unfounded. The industry was concerned that language in the executive order, which…
OFAC Licenses Exports of Anti-Censorship Software to Iran
Last week the Censorship Research Center issued a press release announcing that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued a license authorizing the export of the Center’s Haystack software to Iran. That software permits Internet surfers in Iran to…
Website Updates
As you may have noticed, we have recently made a few changes to Export Law Blog. First, we’ve spiffed up the visual design of the site a bit, having been more or less forced to redesign the look of the…
One List to Rule Them All, One Agency to Find Them (UPDATED)
The speech given this morning by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to a business group detailing the administration’s plan for export reform is now posted on the Department of Defense website and can be found here. It is an ambitious…