ABOVE: Destruction in Homs, Syria Just as the Assad government appears to be gaining ground back from the rebels, the White House announced certain measures loosening the sanctions on Syria. Yesterday, BIS issued a notice on its website that it would…
Lisong Ma, a Chinese national, pleaded guilty last week to charges that he attempted to export carbon fiber from the United States without a license. Carbon fiber meeting certain technical qualifications is classified as ECCN 1C010 and would require a…
Back in April the University of Massachusetts at Lowell (the “University”) agreed to pay to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) a suspended penalty of $100,000 in connection with its unlicensed export of an atmospheric sensing device, antennae and…
ABOVE: Computerlinks FZCOHQ, DSO Building, Dubai The Dubai subsidiary of Munich-based Computerlinks recently agreed to pay $2.8 million dollars to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) to settle charges that the Dubai subsidiary exported sophisticated Internet surveillance software to…
Some tech writers have just discovered the Bureau of Industry and Securities’ Entity List and they are, well, perplexed. Arstechnica, Slashdot and HPC Wire all weighed in on the mysterious list, with all three expressing some surprise that U.S. companies…