Three naturalized U.S. citizens, Dan Tran Dang, Liem Duc Huynh, and George Ngoc Bui were recently indicted and charged with conspiracy to export 55 third generation military night vision goggles to Vietnam without a license. According to the indictment, the…
Edward Hasbrouck, the author of the informative travel manual The Practical Nomad and of an entertaining and informative travel blog of the same name, left a comment to one of our earlier posts on the Syria sanctions: Earlier this year,…
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.…