Yesterday the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on the Iran Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007, which was introduced on March 22 by Senator Gordon Smith and has 70 sponsors equally divided between Democrats and Republicans. Among the proposed sanctions is…
For all the time that we export lawyers spend trying to inculcate into our clients the concept of export red flags, it’s heartening to see that pay off. And it certainly did payoff in the case of two Chinese citizens…
The saga of the government’s ill-fated prosecution of Alex Latifi and his company Axion Corporation continues. The federal district court judge delivered yet another forceful gavel whack to the hands of the prosecutors and awarded the acquitted defendants legal fees,…
This post is only peripherally related to export law, but it does involve Iran, blocked assets, terrorism, Persian antiquities and a fascinating conundrum of statutory construction. So bear with me, you won’t be sorry. The conundrum is posed by the…
ABOVE: Strait of Hormuz Some excellent reporting by Eric Lipton in an article in today’s New York Times suggests that the UAE is mostly giving lip service to export control. Yousef al-Otaiba, an adviser to the crown prince of the…