Category BIS

From the Department of Creative Press Releases

Regular readers of this blog are familiar with our occasional posts on press releases from companies boasting that they have “achieved” registration with the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) and that this means that they have been certified as…

Update from BIS’s Update 2010

The Bureau of Industry and Security’s Update 2010 conference started off this morning with free coffee and pastries, a military honor guard procession, and the Star Spangled Banner. At first, it was hard to tell whether I was attending a…

Titanium Rod Exports Result in $12k Fine

Tacoma-based Service Steel Aerospace Corp. recently agreed to pay a $12,000 fine to the Bureau of Industry and Security arising out of exports of titanium rods to Israel and Mexico. The company had voluntarily disclosed to BIS that it had…

What One Hand Giveth, the Other Taketh Away

ABOVE: Kevin Wolf Today’s edition of the Washington Tariff & Trade Letter has an article (paid subscription required) reporting on the July 27 meeting of the Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committee of the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”).…