The biggest news today was the announcement by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) of a U.K. company’s agreement to pay a $15 million fine, the largest fine ever collected by BIS. I’ll write about that when the charging…
A golf course in Marion, Illinois, is set to close as a result of economic sanctions imposed by the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control against Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe and his cronies. How do the Mugabe sanctions have…
Earlier this afternoon, the State Department issued a press release announcing a settlement it had reached with Interturbine Aviation Logistics GmbH, Germany, and its Texas branch office, Interturbine Aviation Logistics GmbH, LLC, for alleged violatons of the Arms Export Control…
In upgrading to WordPress 2.9.1 today, I had a bit of a problem and lost some of the files that control how this blog looks. I’ve recreated most of them, but the blog is still looking a little odd and…
ABOVE: The ADE-651 On Tuesday my colleague in our London Office, Anita Esslinger, forwarded to me a directive from British export authorities adding “electro-statically powered explosive detectors” to its list of export-controlled items, otherwise known as the 2008 Export Control…