In the continuing D-Trade saga at DDTC, part of ELLIE vanished yesterday. ELLIE was the electronic predecessor to D-Trade. DDTC announced that, effective October 12, 2006, ELLIE may no longer be used to file DSP-5, DSP-61 and DSP-73 license applications.…
This week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit released its opinion in Sacks v. OFAC, upholding the right of OFAC to adopt rules prohibiting travel to Iraq. Additionally, the court dismissed, in unusually harsh language, OFAC’s argument…
False labelling of exported goods can land exporters in a world of trouble and sometimes in places they don’t expect. We previously posted on a shrimp exporter prosecuted in the United States for misrepresentations made to Mexican authorities. Today we…
OFAC announced last week that it had reached a settlement with Koch Foods, a major chicken processing firm, arising out of shipments by Koch to Iraq in August 2002. The OFAC announcement follows OFAC’s general policy of providing minimal guidance…
With each export violation for an item on the Commodity Control List, there is always the possibility that not only will the exporter have BIS to deal with, but also the freight forwarder and shipper will have an unpleasant encounter…