Clif Burns

Clif Burns

Aidless in Gaza?

You can rest assured that this will probably be the first, last and only Export Law Blog post with a link to a story in a Norwegian Marxist-Leninist-Maoist newspaper called, in English, “The Class Struggle” ( or “Klassekampen” in Norwegian).…

U.A.E. Defends Its Export Control Program

The bid by the United Arab Emirates for American assistance in developing and implementing nuclear energy facilities has raised, once again, the role that the U.A.E plays in the transiting of American goods to Iran. U.S. lawmakers have threatened to…

Did He Really Say That?

At the Bureau of Industry and Security’s (“BIS”) Export Control Forum in Newport Beach, California, on March 16, Tony Christino, a senior policy analyst for BIS, announced that a top priority for BIS as the new administration begins is to…

How To Guarantee the Maximum Penalty

ABOVE: Golden Escrow HQ The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) released its monthly report on civil penalties today and one case, involving Golden Escrow, Inc., caught our eye. The escrow company was accused of attempting to transfer…