Export Law Blog previously reported that Iran was attempting to buy parts for F-14 Tomcats in their fleet from U.S. government military surplus sales. A recent article in the San Diego Union-Tribune, which I didn’t see until this morning, provides…
News accounts of the circumstances surrounding the agreement of Chiquita Brands to pay a $25 million criminal fine for payments made to a rebel group in Columbia don’t really tell the whole story. That story can be found in the…
On March 14 the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) added Maurice Subilia, Walter Lachman and Fiber Materials, Inc. to the Denied Persons List and deprived them of export privileges until November 2015. Fiber Materials hasn’t apparently gotten that news…
A number of news reports, including this report from the AP, indicate that the six nations negotiating a U.N. Security Council resolution imposing a second set of sanctions on Iran are close to an agreement. In December 2006, the Security…
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) released on Friday its civil penalty information for February 2006 and reported that Varian, the Palo Alto scientific instrument giant, agreed to pay $114,958 to settle allegations that its Swiss and German subsidiaries…