Clif Burns

Clif Burns

ICE Stings Three in California

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced this week the indictment of three California men for the attempted export of textile machinery to Iran in violation of the Iranian Transaction Regulations. Two of the men — Babak…

BIS Admits That Safe Harbor Was a Shipwreck

In a notice published in today’s Federal Register, BIS has withdrawn the safe harbor and red flag rules that BIS proposed in October 2004. Under those proposed rules, BIS would have increased the number of red flags from 12 to…

VEU, or Very Extremely Unlikely

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.…