ABOVE: Skopje, Macedonia The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) just released an order fining and denying export privileges for Micei International, a retailer of guns. police equipment, digital cameras and other miscellaneous items in Skopje, Macedonia. The order, which…
Economic sanctions continue to spread into cyberspace as Microsoft announced last Friday that customers in sanctioned countries would receive an error message if they tried to log into their Windows Live Messenger accounts and would no longer be able to…
ABOVE: Howard BermanChair, House Foreign Affairs Yesterday, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs approved legislation that would, among other things, amend parts of the Arms Export Control Act (“AECA”). The Bill, H.R. 2410, is titled the ‘‘Foreign Relations Authorization Act,…
The excellent online E.U. news source, EUobserver.com, ran an interesting column on the E.U. and arms sales to Sri Lanka. The column noted that on Monday the E.U. condemned human rights abuses by the Sri Lankan military and demanded an…
The United Kingdom’s Export Control Organization has launched a newsletter, pithily titled “Compliance Newsletter.” In its premier four-page issue, we learn that the ECO is big on warning letters, boasting that it has issued 50 of them since establishing procedures…