Meritor, a Michigan-based manufacturer of vehicle parts, recently agreed to pay $100,000 to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) to settle various allegations that it had illegally exported vehicle parts and technology without required export licenses. One settled count…
This blog reported earlier on a strange case where Ameri-Source, a manufacturer of graphite and other carbon products, settled charges by the Bureau of Industry and Security that it had caused a freight forwarder to file a false shipping declaration…
From the department of low-hanging fruit, the topic of today’s post is an enforcement action by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) against Amy Farrow, the sole proprietor of the Wholesale Discount Store of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (pictured right) for…
The GAO released on March 7 a report, dated February 2, that chastised the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) for confusion within BIS concerning the proper scope and interpretation of its own deemed export rule. The precise issue is…
Let’s say that you were an agency like the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) and you had a huge and complex list of sensitive items that needed a license for export. Now, unless your administrative goal was to collect…