Category BIS

UAE Moved From Naughty to Nice List

According to an article by Guy Dinmore in today’s Financial Times, the UAE has escaped the ignominy of being listed on the Bureau of Industry and Security’s forthcoming list of countries “of diversionary concern.” When BIS issued an Advance Notice…

Subs Gone Wild!

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) released on Friday its civil penalty information for February 2006 and reported that Varian, the Palo Alto scientific instrument giant, agreed to pay $114,958 to settle allegations that its Swiss and German subsidiaries…

“Whatever It Takes”

The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) released today a notice of a final rule amending certain of the rules relating to crime control commodities. Items covered by BIS’s crime controls are controlled because of the fear that these items…