Category Anti-Boycott

What A Difference A Word Makes

ABOVE: Polk Audio HQ Here’s the thing: you can save yourself money if you read this blog. You can certainly avoid paying money to the Office of Antiboycott Compliance (“OAC”) at the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) if you…

One Word Costs a Company $19,800

United Source One, Inc., a Maryland-based food logistics company specializing in food shipments to restaurants in the Middle East, agreed in March to pay a $19,800 penalty to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) for violating BIS’s anti-boycott regulations.…

Think Positive

Perhaps in order to remind everyone that it still exists, the the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Office of Anti-Boycott Compliance (“OAC”) issued a warning letter to CENTRIA, a manufacturer of building enclosure systems based in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. According…

BIS Fries Rice

The Office of Antiboycott Compliance of the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) released a settlement agreement that it recently entered into with American Rice, Inc., pursuant to which American Rice agreed to pay $30,000 to settle charges that American…