Lockheed Martin agreed in December to a $3 million civil penalty in connection with ITAR violations committed by its subsidiary Sippican. The order imposing the fine was entered on December 12. Sippican was involved in developing the electronic payload for…
Just when you thought you had a pretty good idea of all the things that can’t be exported, the Treasury Department issued, on December 20, interim rules forbidding the export of pennies and nickels. The Department based its authority to…
Thanks to a consent agreement released last week, 2007 will have one less export consultant than 2006. Under that agreement, DDTC debarred Security Assistance International from exporting, or participating in the export of, defense articles, although the company can apply…
As a special holiday treat for readers of ExportLawBlog, we are offering this heartwarming story which we found, oddly enough, tucked away in the GAO’s recent report on export law enforcement. Once upon a time: FBI and OEE agents disagreed…
On Tuesday, with little fanfare and with no announcement that I could find, DDTC’s website was moved to a secret new address and went into hiding. Most export professionals had grown fond of DDTC’s unique URI: This was, until…