A criminal complaint (not yet available on PACER) was, according to news reports on the AP wire and in the DC Examiner, filed against Yaming Nina Qi Hanson, a 51-year-old woman living in Silver Spring, Maryland. The complaint charged her…
According to a report last week in Syrian state-run newspaper Al-Baath, the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) has approved the export of aircraft parts and repair services from the United States to Syria for the purpose of putting two…
According to documents posted today on the website of the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”), Pennsylvania-based Ameri-Source, Inc., a manufacturer of graphite and other carbon products, agreed to pay an $11,500 penalty to BIS. The payments was to settle…
With a new administration in the White House, opponents of the Cuba embargo are hoping to pass legislation that could gradually chip away at the total embargo in place against the island. Last week Representative Bill Delahunt [D-Mass.] introduced the…
A website notice mysteriously appeared today in the advisory opinion section of the website for the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”). Titled “Website Notice on Transfers of Licenses,” I’m not so sure what its doing in the advisory opinion…