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…
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…
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…
No big news today, so it’s time for another Export Law Blog grab bag: A Swiss court convicted an un-named Czech man for exporting missile-related electronic components to Iran. The man claimed he thought the components were harmless. The court…
ABOVE: Drumcliffe Church In an earlier story, we reported on the arrest of a Tehran-based businessman on charges that, among other things, he exported helicopter engines from the United States to Iran. One of the intermediate consignees for that export…