Clif Burns

Clif Burns

Microwave Power Modules Added to CCL

Almost a year after the last plenary of the Wassenaar Arrangement approved and adopted changes to the Wassenaar List of Dual-Use Goods and Technologies, the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) yesterday released a final rule implementing those changes on…

There’s No Place Like Home

A criminal complaint was filed yesterday in federal court in Newark against Xu Bing, a Chinese national and resident of Nanjing, for attempted export of night vision equipment to China. Not surprisingly, the arrest was the result of a sting…

Under Any Other Name

Felipe Ramón Pérez Roque ExportLawBlog opposes, as most readers know, unilateral sanctions, including the Cuba sanctions. But the speech given yesterday by Felipe Ramón Pérez Roque, Cuba’s Foreign Minister, before the UN prior to the UN’s annual vote on a…

Duped or Duplicitous?

The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) just released the decision of an Administrative Law Judge recommending a 15-year denial of export privileges to Megatech Engineering, a Mumbai-based distributor of MTS Systems products, and three of its employees. At issue…