At yesterday’s Export Update Conference conducted by BIS, Christopher Padilla, Assistant Secretary for Export Administration, announced that BIS was planning to expand its new concept of Validated End Users, or VEUs, beyond the proposed China catch-all regulations to other countries.…
BIS released today a document entitled “Defense Industrial Base Assessment: U.S. Imaging and Sensor’s Industry.” This report, requested by the Army in May 2005, comes almost a year late from the delivery date of December 2005 originally requested by the…
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…