On Friday the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) issued revised guidelines for submitting agreements such as Technical Assistance Agreements (“TAA”) and Manufacturing License Agreements (“MLA”). As most export geeks know, TAAs and MLAs, once submitted to and approved by…
In March, Dawn Hanna was convicted by a jury in Detroit for exporting mobile telecom equipment to Saddam Hussein in violation of the U.S. embargo against Iraq in place at the time of the export. Hanna claimed throughout her trial…
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued a guidance today on exports of medical parts to support medical devices legally exported under OFAC licenses to Iran or Sudan, the two countries for which OFAC exercises licensing authority…
Last week the New York Philharmonic announced that it had been forced to cancel its planned concert in Cuba at the end of October. Although the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) granted licenses to let the instrumentalists travel to…
Last week, Canadian officials announced that they had intercepted navigational microchips headed for Iran. More interestingly, in an interview that George Webb, the head of Canada Border Services Agency’s Counter Proliferation Section, gave to Canada’s National Post after the interception,…