Six months after the State Department removed Libya from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission got around to changing its regulations to reflect this removal. In a Federal Register notice issued Friday the NRC amended…
The Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals in California yesterday overturned the conviction of Qing Chang Jiang, who had been convicted of making false statements to a BIS investigator in connection with an export investigation. In unusually harsh language, the…
On Monday we complained about a broken link at the BIS website to its report of a settlement agreement entered into by Olympiad Line LLC, a Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier (“NVOCC”). The link had been broken for almost a month.…
The Treasury Department announced today the imposition of sanctions on Iran’s fifth-largest state-owned bank, Bank Sepah, because of its financial support of Iranian firms engaged in nuclear and missile proliferation. According to Treasury, Bank Sepah has been involved, among other…
Last month BIS added a new entry to the Hall of Shame: the BIS listing of export violations. The entry was for a case brought against Olympiad Lines LLC, an “NVOCC” in maritime speak (i.e., a Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier,…