Ace Systems, a Georgia-based reseller of refurbished voice cards and other PC-based telephony products, agreed to a fine of $36,000 to settle these charges as set forth in the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Charging Letter: On or about July…
If you thought BIS could only come after you for exports of dual-use items, you would be wrong — a lesson learned the hard way by P.R.A. World Wide Trading Co., Inc., a freight forwarder which was fined $250,000 pursuant…
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.…