Category BIS

BIS Releases New Export Compliance Audit Module

Not too long ago when I posted on Cabela’s settlement of export violation charges alleged by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”), I noted that part of the settlement agreement required Cabela’s to complete BIS’s “Export Management Systems Review…

Graphite Export Settlement Not Very Graphic

According to documents posted today on the website of the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”), Pennsylvania-based Ameri-Source, Inc., a manufacturer of graphite and other carbon products, agreed to pay an $11,500 penalty to BIS. The payments was to settle…

D’oh, or Export Due Diligence Is Your Friend

A website notice mysteriously appeared today in the advisory opinion section of the website for the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”). Titled “Website Notice on Transfers of Licenses,” I’m not so sure what its doing in the advisory opinion…

Well-Being Runs Out of Happiness, Health and Prosperity

Yesterday the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) released four settlement agreements arising out of a scheme by a large Taiwanese company to use its U.S. subsidiary to export products (mostly chemicals, metals and electronic components) on the Commerce Control…