A group of publishers have just petitioned the White House to “End the Book Embargo Against Cuba.” Say what? It’s illegal to send books to Cuba or import books from Cuba? Not so much. Due to the information exception in…
We have followed the saga of Epsilon Electronics extensively, beginning with the The Auto Sound and the OFAC Fury Part I and Part II and ending most recently with Epsilon, Epsilon. Well, it seems that the story may be drawing to…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) is placing Chinese telecom giant ZTE (and three related companies) on the Entity List tomorrow according to this pre-release version of the Federal Register notice announcing the action. As a result, all items…
ABOVE: Erdal Kuyumcu Erdal Kuyumcu, the CEO of Global Metallurgy LLC, was indicted this week on charges that he shipped an EAR99 chemical to Iran through a middleman in Turkey. The criminal complaint provides the details of the government’s case,…
Yesterday the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced that it had extracted $304,706 from Halliburton Atlantic Limited and Halliburton Oversea Limited in connection with unlicensed exports of $1,189,752 in goods and services by those companies to the joint venture…