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…
An editorial in Friday’s Wall Street Journal was critical of the United Nations Development Program (“UNDP”) for several supposedly illegal exports. The criticism seems to be largely based on the questionable claim that the UNDP was required to obtain export…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) has released new regulations explaining the treatment that BIS will give to voluntary disclosures of BIS’s antiboycott regulations. Those regulations, for example, prohibit exporters from certifying to Arab League countries that exported products…
Georgia lawyer Nyema E. Weli entered into a settlement agreement (link warning — see below) with the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) on June 27, 2007, arising out of allegations by BIS that he had attempted to export five…