Another day, another foreign subsidiary of a U.S. company caught shipping stuff to Iran. This time it’s the Luxembourg-based subsidiary of Viking, a leading manufacturer of fire protection systems. The fire extinguishing systems were shipped by the sub through the…
An article (subscription only) in today’s edition of Inside U.S. Trade reports on the hearing held last Friday by the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on export controls. We have previously described the prepared testimony of Christopher Padilla, who heads Export…
Apparently feeling that Michael Moore’s new movie wasn’t getting enough publicity, the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) served its own subpoena on Moore, giving Moore yet another opportunity to talk about persecution on the late night talk show circuit.…
Assistant Secretary of Commerce Christopher Padilla testified on Friday at a hearing on export controls held by a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Most of the testimony was devoted to the current hobby-horses of Padilla’s Bureau of Industry…
Houston-based oil-drilling and oilfield services company Weatherford announced yesterday in its 8-K filing with the SEC that the company has been notified that the Bureau of Industry & Security and the U.S. Department of Justice are investigating allegations of improper…