On Wednesday, the Bureau of Industry and Security amended the EAR to reflect the removal of Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Somewhat surprisingly, the impact of this removal is much less than might be imagined. Of…
Two austere ostriches, Osgood and Osbad, who lived near an old gum tree somewhere in the Australian outback, ran a successful business buying cattle prods made by Cow Poke, Inc., located in Kankakee, Illinois, and selling them to cattle farmers…
After the uproar generated by the proposed amendments to the Export Administration Regulations to implement the Wassenaar Arrangement’s rules controlling “intrusion software,” the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) tried to calm things down by issuing some FAQs on the…
Those of us who live in the District of Columbia are used to, if not content with, the routine indignities imposed on us as residents of that tiny square of reclaimed swamp land sandwiched in between Virginia and Maryland. …
At long last, and well after the E.U. and many other members of the Wassenaar Arrangement, BIS has released proposed (but not final) rules implementing the December 2013 changes adopted by the Arrangement and which imposed export controls on “intrusion…