A battle is being waged over the planned, but allegedly illegal, export of a former U.S. Navy hospital ship M/V Sanctuary. Decommissioned in 1989, the battle certainly isn’t over whether a license should have been obtained from the Directorate of…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) recently set aside a default judgment denying export privileges to S.P. Equipamentos de Protecao ao Trabalho Ltda (“SPE”), a Brazilian firm charged with violating U.S. export laws by re-exporting night vision equipment to…
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) yesterday released its monthly report on penalties imposed by the agency last month. And, for the first time since the invention of the Internet, no one got fined for buying Cohibas over the…
If any company considering its first export transaction actually read and tried to understand the recordkeeping requirements of Part 762 of the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”), it is unlikely that anything would ever be exported from the United States. And…
U.S. District Court Judge Inge P. Johnson, after a seven day bench trial, recently dismissed six felony charges against Alexander Latifi, a defense contractor from Huntsville, Alabama. The judge ruled that the prosecution failed to carry its burden of proof.…