President Bush and Prime Minister Blair today signed the “Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty” which will ease export license requirements for defense articles exported between the United States and the United Kingdom. Details of the treaty are scarce at this point…
The Office of Foreign Asset Controls (“OFAC”) today issued General License No. 7 authorizing U.S. persons “to engage in all transactions otherwise prohibited by 31 C.F.R. parts 594, 595, and 597 with the Palestinian Authority.” Obviously this General License is…
For those of you who didn’t get to go to the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget and have been left behind, like me, to swelter in the heat and humidity of late June in the District of Columbia (or…
Last week we reported on increased jawboning by the State Department, which has been threatening to impose sanctions under the Iran Sanctions Act on foreign oil companies that do business in Iraq. One target singled out by State is the…
The QRS-11 navigational chip, perhaps the poster child for the so-called ITAR creep phenomenon, still bedevils the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. Today, the DDTC issued a final rule amending the rule excluding the QRS-11 chip from the United States…