The UK’s Export Control Office (“ECO”) has just released a video on export control that has the tenor and excitement of certain videos they used to show us in high school health class on those touchy subjects of serious concern,…
Regular readers will know that we have a particular fascination with Business Wire press releases where companies announce that they have “achieved” registration under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”). These press releases are amusing because anyone who can…
Don’t start making room in you humidors for any Cuban Cohibas just yet, but provisions attached by the House of Representatives to the 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act rolling back some Cuba sanctions are likely to be approved by the Senate.…
Italian wire service Adnkronos International reported today that the New York branch of Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo is under investigation in the United States in connection with its involvement in U.S.-dollar wire transfers originated by sanctioned banks and individuals in…
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) released today its monthly report on civil penalties, and it was indeed a short list with one short entry. And since there’s only one entry it, not surprisingly, involved the “terrorist” island just…