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…
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…
SyrVet, Inc., an Iowa-based distributor of livestock products, agreed to pay a $250,000 fine to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) in connection with its unlicensed exports of cattle prods. Cattle prods and other discharge type arms such as…
ABOVE: Chinese Long March 3B rocket blasts off on July 6, 2007 As the end of the year approaches, the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) has been busy releasing a flurry of settlement agreements for export violations. In the…
The saga over conflicts between the Department of State and the Department of Commerce regarding which agency has jurisdiction over exports of aircraft parts continues with the latest Final Rule issued by the Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security. The…