The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) today announced that it was adding the Export Development Bank of Iran (“EDBI”) to its list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons. The effect of the designation is to freeze all assets…
Country-based sanctions start to get leaky in the age of the Internet. How does a software download service know whether or not it’s providing a service to an individual in a sanctioned country? A blogger at PBS’s Mediashift Blog notes…
The Texas subsidiary of German logistics and transportation provider Rohde & Liesenfeld agreed to pay $108,000 to settle charges by the Burea of Industry and Security (“BIS”) that Rohde & Liesenfeld had committed 36 violations of BIS’s antiboycott regulations. Those…
When Jesus Argandona, arriving in San Antonio from Mexico City, stepped off his plane, he probably thought his next destination would be his hotel. Instead it was jail. A criminal complaint had been filed against him under the Anti-Smuggling statute,…
An interesting and informative article in the online edition of Die Welt takes the U.S. export control scheme to task for restrictions imposed on the export of avian bird flu vaccine. When Indonesia’s health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses…