No big news today, so it’s time for another Export Law Blog grab bag: Failed state Solomon Islands wanted Iran to pay for transportation of Solomon Islands students to Cuba to attend medical school. Australia-based ANZ Bank refused to transfer…
Novamet Specialty Products Corporation recently agreed to pay $700,000 to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) for 15 unlicensed shipments of nickel powder worth about $80,000. According to the charging documents, the powder was classified as ECCN 1C240.a. It…
I’ve received some emails from irate subscribers demanding their money back (to steal a joke from Jim Bartlett) due to the paucity of postings lately. Kinder, gentler readers have expressed concern as to whether I have been kidnapped. To the…
ABOVE: Avi Jorisch Avi Jorisch, who used to be a policy advisor at the Treasury Department’s office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, wrote an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal titled “How Iran Skirts Sanctions: Could a U.N. agency be…
Last week several readers brought to my attention a Bloomberg story that announced in its headline “U.S. Wants Microsoft to End Message Ban in Iran, Cuba.” This created a bit of a hubbub at the world headquarters of Export Law…