Clif Burns

Clif Burns

DDTC Blames Registration Chaos on Applicants

The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) has recently completed a review of registration applications and has reported in a “Message from David Trimble, Director of Compliance” that fifty percent of the registration applications that it received over the past…

BIS Announces New Penalty Policies

The remarks of Assistant Secretary Darryl Jackson of the Bureau of Industry and Security at the West Coast update conference in March were just posted on the BIS website. Most of the remarks were predictable big-stick waving from BIS with…