Aspirin and Terrorism in Sudan
In October 2017, OFAC started down the long and winding road of eliminating the sanctions on Sudan. As we noted in a post then, OFAC — rather oddly — did not just get rid of the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations but…
Clif Burns
US to China: No Robots for You!
The Wall Street Journal reports that the White House is cooking up new export controls on China. The idea is to restrict exports to China of technologies that could assist in China’s Made in China 2025 manufacturing upgrade initiative. That…
DOJ Limits What Lawyers Can Say to OFAC without Registering as a Foreign Agent
Now that DOJ has started more actively prosecuting FARA violations, it decided to upload to its website a bunch of advisory opinions that apparently had been languishing in a file cabinet somewhere in the depths of Main Justice. Whether or…
EU Commission Menacingly Threatens Toothless Blocking Regulation
On June 6, the European Union Commission adopted a delegated regulation amending the Annex to Council Regulation (EC) No. 2271/96 of 22 November 1996. Council Regulation (EC) No. 2271/96 is the notorious EU blocking regulation which forbids individuals and companies in EU…
DDTC’s Buzzer Beater to Save Brokering Authority over Firearms Misses the Hoop
As noted in my post yesterday on the proposed rules to transition certain Category I, II and III items from the United States Munitions List to the Commerce Control List, DDTC attempted to preserve its brokering authority over the transferred…