The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) released today a notice of a proposed rule that would expand the reasons that a company could be placed on BIS’s Entity List. A license is required for exports of all items subject…
Some companies have found a new reason to register with the Directorate of Defense Controls (“DDTC”), one that would probably cause the folks at DDTC to raise an eyebrow or three. Consider this press release from test equipment manufacturer CIMTEK:…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) just published on its website a settlement agreement with someone who appears to been simply a shipping clerk at Universal Technology, Inc. Back in June 2006, BIS entered into a Settlement Agreement with…
Earlier this month, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit announced that it was dismissing the appeal of machine gun manufacturer and distributor U.S. Ordnance in its lawsuit against the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”). The…
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced expanded sanctions today against Sudan and added three individuals and thirty-one Sudanese companies to the SDN list. Doing business with these companies was already prohibited by the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations. The effect…