The BIS website recently listed an anti-boycott settlement agreement involving freight forwarder and customs broker International Specialist, Inc., located in Boston, Massachusetts. The charging letter provided this significant bit of information about the alleged violation: In connection with the transaction…
Last month I wrote a post on the consent decree entered into by BIS and EP MedSystems where, among other things, BIS appeared to have fly-specked the differences between a preliminary disclosure and a final disclosure and argued that the…
The December 2006 Wassenaar Plenary made a number of changes to the Waasenaar control lists, and as I noted on Friday, I’ve been going through the changes to find anything of interest. One change of interest (particularly to Lockheed Martin)…
The changes adopted at the December 2006 Plenary of Wassenaar are now posted on the Wassenaar website, and we’ve started to go through them to look for things of interest. The first thing to catch our eye was to see…
The UAE was apparently as surprised as I was by the veiled threats of action delivered at WITA yesterday by BIS Assistant Secretary Chris Padilla. During his speech, Padilla indicated that unspecified sanctions against the UAE were imminent because of…