Category BIS

Call Kevin Wolf

ABOVE: Kevin Wolf Do you want to talk to an important official at the Bureau of Industry and Security about export reform? Well, here’s your chance. BIS is resuming its weekly teleconferences with Kevin Wolf, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce,…

Voluntary Disclosure Leads To Large Fine

Illinois-based Littlefuse, Inc., which, not surprisingly, makes fuses, filed a voluntary disclosure with the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) relating to 37 unlicensed exports, worth $90,017.96, to the Philippines (presumably its own manufacturing facility there.) In return for its…

T Minus 180 and Counting

I suppose it was inevitable. The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) today announced a proposed rule that would require that a final voluntary disclosure be filed within 180 days after the filing of the initial notification. Currently there is…

Look, Ma, No Export License!

According to settlement documents released by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”), New Jersey based Phibrochem agreed to pay $31,000 to settle charges that it exported $14,000 worth of sodium fluoride to Mexico without a license. Sodium fluoride, which…