In late December, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) updated its Cuba FAQs to add questions #57-61 on insurance issues. Naturally, there is no explanation for why these were added but if you supposed that they were added to…
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) released on December 31 its cybersecurity regulations implementing Executive Order 13694 of April 1, 2015 (“EO 13694â€), which permits the designation and blocking of individuals and companies that have engaged in “cyberenabled activities”…
Not to be outdone by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, which left a nice little gift under every exporter’s tree last week, the Bureau of Industry and Security had a gift of its own which it dropped down everyone’s…
A spokesman for the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) told Export Law Blog this morning that discussions between OFAC and the North Pole over Santa Claus’s Christmas Eve itinerary had once again broken down and were not…
The recent indictment of Brian Thomas Platt, a federally-registered firearms manufacturer, makes me wonder whether there is so little crime in Maryland that prosecutors have the time to indict an individual for exporting a handful of rifle parts without a…