The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) issued today a final rule amending section 127.12 of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) which governs voluntary disclosures of violations of the ITAR by exporters of defense articles and defense services.…
In an earlier post, we noted that License Exceptions TMP and BAG’s “tools of the trade” exception might allow temporary export of laptops and the software on it, but that this exception did not cover technical data. Today the Bureau…
According to a piece published yesterday in Information Week, the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran announced that it had used 218 AMD microprocessors to build a supercomputer with a theoretical peak performance of 860 gigaflops. The fastest supercomputer in…
On December 3, Philip Cheng from Cupertino, California, was sentenced to a two-year prison term for his involvement in a scheme to export night vision equipment to China. Cheng, an export broker, had been involved in a transaction in which…
There has been some discussion here at Export Law Blog about the proper role of freight forwarding companies in export enforcement. If a customer of a freight forwarder proffers a package addressed to Iran without an OFAC license, should the…