Brotherly Love Only Goes So Far
I’ll admit it and apologize in advance. The main reason for this story and for this link to Britain’s worst newspaper is so that I can run the picture of Ariel Maralit. Ariel, the guy in the photo on the…
Clif Burns
PayPal Has No Pals at OFAC
Internet payment facilitator PayPal recently agreed to pay to the Office of Foreign Assets Control $7,658,300 in fines and penalties to settle charges that it processed 486 financial transactions involving embargoed countries and blocked parties on OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals…
Dead Cubans Removed from SDN List; Fictional Daniel Garcia Stays On
Yesterday the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) quietly removed a number of Cuba-related listings from its Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons list. These delistings included dissolved companies, dead people and Cuban ships that had either sunk or were…
Feds Indict Man For Mistakes on Discontinued Forms
As most readers of this blog know, the venerable Shipper’s Export Declaration was discontinued in 2008. Instead, exporters now file the Electronic Export Information using the Automated Export System. Apparently the news of this change has yet to make its…
Export Car to China: Go Directly to Jail
Everybody knows that you can go to jail for exporting a tank to China. But did you know that you can go to jail for exporting a luxury car, classified as EAR99, to China? Well, it appears that you can.…