There has never been a seriously-advocated rational reason for the U.S., unlike most other countries, to have one export agency regulating exports of weapons and a separate export agency regulating exports of dual use items. A new regulation adopted by…
On Tuesday, the website of the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls announced that it had updated its “Guidelines for the Permanent Export, Temporary Export and Temporary Import of Firearms and Ammunitions.” Although DDTC did not identify or explain the changes…
ABOVE: Majid Kakavand Amir Ardebili, who we posted on here and here, is not the only Iranian being chased by U.S. prosecutors for activities he committed entirely outside the United States and which were legal in the country where they…
Virginia-based Taipan Enterprises Ltd. pleaded guilty to, and paid a $15,000 fine for, charges that it illegally engaged in arms-brokering without registering with, and obtaining licenses from, the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”). The Statement of Facts that supported…
As enterprises began to confront the issues raised by cloud computing, this article on TMCnet is a good reminder that export issues may be some of the most intractable. Although some clouds, like Amazon’s EC2, provide servers in defined locations,…