BIS recently released a Charging Letter, Settlement Agreement and Order pursuant to which pump maker Graco agreed to pay $97,000 to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) to settle fifteen alleged violations of the Export Administration Regulations. The violations…
Last week we reported on increased jawboning by the State Department, which has been threatening to impose sanctions under the Iran Sanctions Act on foreign oil companies that do business in Iraq. One target singled out by State is the…
The QRS-11 navigational chip, perhaps the poster child for the so-called ITAR creep phenomenon, still bedevils the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. Today, the DDTC issued a final rule amending the rule excluding the QRS-11 chip from the United States…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) has issued a temporary denial order against everyone in sight involved in the Cirrus Electronics matter. As we previously reported, Cirrus Electronics took orders for electronic components from the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) released today a notice of a proposed rule that would expand the reasons that a company could be placed on BIS’s Entity List. A license is required for exports of all items subject…