Category BIS

Kurds and Whey?

I know you will all sleep safer once I tell you about the recent consent agreement entered into between the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) and Muscle Gauge Nutrition as well as a related agreement between BIS and and…

What an Uncool Thing To Do!

According to an article last week in Bloomberg Businessweek, the Pentagon is seeking to add uncooled thermal imaging devices to the United States Munitions List. Putting that technology on the USML, as opposed to the Commerce Control List administered by…

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…

Another Exporter Trips over the Entity List

Two weeks ago I reported on a settlement agreement between two shipping companies and the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) with respect to unlicensed exports of scrap steel to People Steel Mill, a company in Pakistan on BIS’s Entity…

Check The List Or Go To School

Kesco Shipping Corporation and Multi-Link Container Line, a freight forwarder and a shipping line respectively, have agreed to pay $28,000 to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) to settle charges that they aided an unlicensed export of scrap steel,…