Clif Burns

Clif Burns

The Name Game Chinese Style

An interesting story in today’s Wall Street Journal details instances in which a number of U.S. companies imported items from China Precision Machinery Import Export Corporation despite the fact that CPMIEC is on the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s Specially…

How the OFAC Stole Christmas

A spokesman for the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) told Export Law Blog this morning that discussions between OFAC and the North Pole over Santa Claus’s Christmas Eve itinerary had broken down and were not expected to…

America’s First Arms Broker

With the federal government closed by snow, it’s a slow day for export news, which gives me the opportunity to plug “Unlikely Allies” by Joel Richard Paul. The book which reads like a novel of eighteenth-century intrigue recounts the true…