An article in today’s Miami Herald provides more details about the settlement agreement that we previously reported and under which freight forwarder Cargoland Air and Ocean Cargo, Inc. agreed to pay a fine of $36,000 to the Bureau of Industry…
While some in the export community have charged the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) and the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) of being overzealous in their enforcement activities, it is a…
. . . the United Arab Emirates. With the publication today by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) of the additions to the Entity List announced on Wednesday, the UAE moves into first place in terms of the single…
The defense trade cooperation treaties signed by the United States with the United Kingdom and Australia may have just become victims of election year politics. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee announced today, according to this report in Defense News, that…
The winner of today’s breathlessly exaggerated headline contest goes to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) for this: COMMERCE DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT PARTNERS, BREAK UP IRANIAN RING CHARGED WITH PROCURING IED COMPONENTS Although this headline conjures up a Eliot Ness…