ABOVE: Skopje, Macedonia The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) just released an order fining and denying export privileges for Micei International, a retailer of guns. police equipment, digital cameras and other miscellaneous items in Skopje, Macedonia. The order, which…
A helpful reader emailed me earlier today that some guy was so impressed with this blog that he decided to start his own site* (pdf image file of site – safe) by stealing each and every one of my posts…
According to an article that appeared yesterday in the Daily Mail, a London daily, test launch procedures for Lockheed Martin’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD ) ground-to-air missile defense system were found on a hard drive purchased on eBay.…
BJ Services, the Houston-based oil and gas field service provider, recently agreed to pay $800,000 to settle charges that it illegally exported certain valves without the requisite licenses from the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”). The BIS investigation, and…
An article (paid subscription required) in this week’s Washington Tariff & Trade Letter reports that at the Defense Trade Advisory Group (“DTAG”) meeting held on April 7, Frank Ruggiero, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls…