The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) and the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) have announced proposed reforms to Category X of the United States Munitions List (“USML”). Category X covers protective personnel equipment and shelters. For those wondering…
Qiang Hu, a Chinese national who was sales manager at MKS Instruments Shanghai Ltd. was arrested while he visited the Shanghai company’s U.S. parent, MKS Instruments, Inc. in Andover, Massachusetts. He was arrested on charges that he illegally exported manometers,…
A recent story from Bloomberg indicates that California-based NetApp, which manufactures and sells network storage solutions, is under investigation by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) in connection with one of NetApp’s storage devices winding up in Syria. The…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued a press release today announcing a consent decree between the agency and Ericsson de Panama S.A. in Panama City, Panama. Under the consent decree, Ericsson’s Panamanian subsidiary agreed to pay $1.753 million…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) recently released documents detailing a settlement that it entered into with Mattson Technologies relating to Mattson’s unlicensed exports of pressure transducers classified under ECCN 2B230. That ECCN covers pressure transducers with pressure sensing…