Top 10 Export Stories of 2009
After seeing that CNN was doing a feature on the top ten YouTube videos of 2009, the staff at Export Law Blog decided that we no longer had an excuse not to recount the top 10 export stories of 2009.…
Clif Burns
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…
@Ahmadinejad: Twitter Is Coming to Town. #IranElection
The Department of State sent on Tuesday, December 15, a report to Congress under section 1606 of the Iran-Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation Act of 1992 (codified at 50 U.S.C. § 1701 note)(“IIANPA”). Under section 1603 of IIANPA, no items on the…
Guilty Pleas for Violating the “There Oughta Be A” Law
Two men, one in Texas and one in New Jersey, have pleaded guilty to violations of 18 U.S.C. § 554 in connection with a scheme where the New Jersey man provided false NAFTA certificates of origin to the Texas man,…