Illya Antonenko, one of our intrepid associate editors, attended a presentation today at the Washington International Trade Association by Chris Padilla, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration. As expected, Mr. Padilla continued to tout BIS’s plans to expand the…
“Bad cases make bad law.” The truth of that law school axiom has rarely been on better display than in yesterday’s decision by the European Court of First Instance to remove the People’s Mujahideen of Iran (Mujahideen-e-Khalq) from the EU’s…
Last week the GAO released an unusually critical report which chided both DDTC and BIS over the way both agencies handled deemed export issues posed by university research programs. The report was prompted by an inquiry from Representative James Sensenbrenner,…
In April 2005, Finmeccanica acquired BAE Systems Avionics, Ltd. which it renamed SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems Limited. A notice posted on December 7 on the DDTC website reveals that DDTC’s Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (“DTCC”) is not…
In an announcement posted yesterday on its website, DDTC chides exporters for a recent increase in “low-quality” applications and says that it will no longer help exporters correct errors in applications but will simply return them without action. If true,…