Clif Burns

Clif Burns

BIS Tries to Shed Light on Night Vision

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…

The Lady (Almost) Vanishes

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.…

Catfish Row

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 Fines Koch Foods More than a Poultry Sum

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…