Back in November, Pennsylvania-based Colorcon, a manufacturer of specialty chemicals for the food and pharmaceutical industries, agreed to pay $39,000 to the Bureau of Industry and Security, based on alleged violations of BIS’s anti-boycott regulations. According to the charging documents…
Norman AugustineChair, Deemed ExportAdvisory Committee The Deemed Export Advisory Committee released today its report to BIS on BIS’s deemed export rules. The deemed export rules, among other things, require licenses prior to release of technology on a dual-use item to…
There has been some discussion here at Export Law Blog about the proper role of freight forwarding companies in export enforcement. If a customer of a freight forwarder proffers a package addressed to Iran without an OFAC license, should the…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) recently set aside a default judgment denying export privileges to S.P. Equipamentos de Protecao ao Trabalho Ltda (“SPE”), a Brazilian firm charged with violating U.S. export laws by re-exporting night vision equipment to…
If any company considering its first export transaction actually read and tried to understand the recordkeeping requirements of Part 762 of the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”), it is unlikely that anything would ever be exported from the United States. And…