Category BIS

The iPhone Cometh

ABOVE: Online Micro HQ Last week the Bureau of Industry and Security released Settlement Agreements it entered into with Massoud Habibion, Mohsen Motamedian, and Online Micro LLC in connection with computers exported to Iran through an intermediary in the UAE.…

Mystery Solved (Maybe)

In a post back in December titled “Imaginary Numbers,” I noted that the list of commodity jurisdiction determinations by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls had some puzzling entries: Three entries on the list, two for a high mobility electron…

FedEx Agrees To Pay $370,000 Export Penalty

Federal Express has agreed to pay to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) a penalty of $370,000 in connection with charges that it aided and abetted one export and five attempted exports between 2004 and 2006 without required export…

Call Kevin Wolf

ABOVE: Kevin Wolf Who says you never have gotten to talk to an Assistant Secretary of Commerce? Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 14, 2011, you can dial up Kevin Wolf at 2:00 p.m. to discuss the White House’s current export reform proposals.…