Last week the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) adopted, with a few minor revisions, a rule that it had proposed in August 2009 imposing new controls on execution equipment, torture devices, law enforcement restraint devices and law enforcement striking…
ABOVE: Oyster Bay Pump Works Patrick Gaillard, president of Oyster Bay Pump Works, a producer of automated liquid dispensing laboratory equipment, recently signed a consent agreement with the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) under which he agreed to a…
ABOVE: Richard Bistrong Well, it now seems that some export issues may be arising in the much-publicized “Shot Show” Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) prosecution. In that case, law enforcement officials perp-marched owners and officials of gun and law enforcement…
The last four items posted by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) — and which are linked here, here, here, and here) on its list of reported export violations — all involved impositions of export denial orders on individuals…
An article (subscription required) in the latest issue of Inside U.S. Trade describes an interview the publication held with a “senior administration official” on the White House’s proposed export control reforms. According to the official, an interagency agreement should occur…