Clif Burns

Clif Burns

Freight Forwarder Agrees to $20k Export Penalty

The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) recently released documents related to its settlement with Buffalo-based G&W International Forwarders of charges that G&W aided and abetted the export of a stack sizer screening machine (classified as EAR99) to a company…

Valve Export Rules Changed

The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) yesterday published a final rule implementing changes proposed by The Australia Group to its Control List of Dual-Use Chemical Manufacturing Facilities and Equipment and Related Technology and Software. To implement one of the…

Not So Fast There, Buster

The folks over at the (unofficial) Google Earth Blog are all excited that Google Earth might soon be available for download in Sudan, Syria and other sanctioned countries. Export Law Blog reported earlier that Google was blocking downloads of Google…