According to the latest civil penalty information released by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies (“CC-CS”), a Massachusetts-based company specializing in arranging university study programs abroad, agreed to pay $15,000 to settle allegations that…
An indictment was returned on October 28, charging three men with conspiring to export carbon-fiber material to the China Academy of Space Technology (“CAST”). Certain types of carbon-fiber materials are covered by ECCNs 1A002, 1C010, 1C210, and 1C990. The DOJ…
The Office of Antiboycott Compliance of the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) released a settlement agreement that it recently entered into with American Rice, Inc., pursuant to which American Rice agreed to pay $30,000 to settle charges that American…
ABOVE: USML Category II(a) I always tell clients that even an obsolete military item can be on the United States Munitions List (“USML”) and require an export license. Still, not all obsolete military items are on the USML. Maces, catapults,…
Some interesting news today on the sanctions front, so it’s time for another Export Law Blog grab bag: The Iranians aren’t very happy about the sanctions imposed yesterday by the Treasury Department on the Export Development Bank of Iran (“EDBI”),…