A spokesman for the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) told Export Law Blog this morning that discussions between OFAC and the North Pole over Santa Claus’s Christmas Eve itinerary had broken down and were not expected to…
Norman AugustineChair, Deemed ExportAdvisory Committee The Deemed Export Advisory Committee released today its report to BIS on BIS’s deemed export rules. The deemed export rules, among other things, require licenses prior to release of technology on a dual-use item to…
The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) released today a final rule making it easier to transfer technical data under a technical assistance agreement (“TAA”) to third-country nationals, i.e., nationals of countries other than the country specifically authorized…
Alexander Lukashenko Sometimes even somebody as distasteful Belarus’s dictator Alexander Lukashenko may have a point. Reacting to news that the U.S. may be considering further sanctions against Belarus, Belarus’s ambassador to the United States, Mikhail Khvostov, held a press conference…
We reported earlier this week that Iran had announced that it had built a quasi-supercomputer using 213 AMD chips despite U.S. sanctions which would forbid the export of those chips to Iran. Where do you think the chips came from?…