It’s easy to forget that there are things other than dual-use items, defense articles, and nuclear materials that are export-controlled. The recent conviction of Florida resident Max Moghaddam for the unlicensed export of paddlefish roe should serve as a reminder…
Last week, the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) used section 744.11 of the Export Administration Regulations for a second time to designate sixteen more entities to the Entity List for activities by these entities that could be contrary to…
Private security company Blackwater is, apparently, pitching itself to shipping companies as their solution to all their pirate problems. They’ve even got a 183-foot ship that can carry two helicopters and a shipload, so to speak, of rigid-hull inflatable boats.…
The saga over conflicts between the Department of State and the Department of Commerce regarding which agency has jurisdiction over exports of aircraft parts continues with the latest Final Rule issued by the Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security. The…
ABOVE: Mansoor RadFinance DirectorNaftiran Just before Thanksgiving, the Office of Foreign Asset Controls (“OFAC”) designated a Swiss corporation and a U.K. corporation as entities controlled by the Government of Iran. The two companies involved were Naftiran Intertrade Co. (NICO) SARL,…