One of the things that SCP Global Technologies got in trouble for according to the Settlement Agreement released today by BIS was shipping spare parts without a license that were not eligible for License Exception RPL. According to the charging…
BIS will send you, if you ask, an email notifying you of updates to the BIS website. Today I received one of the odder of such notices: In the matter of the denial order of Ihsan Elashi, et. al., the…
OFAC just released its monthly exercise in non-disclosure, recounting — in as little detail as possible — penalty actions undertaken by OFAC in the previous month. A Cuba vacationer, a guy who purchased a few Cuban stogies over the Internet,…
Next time you are in the airport, don’t be surprised if some ICE agents, dressed as Viking pillagers, come running after you in the jet-way screaming “What’s in your laptop?” At least that’s a possibility hinted at by BIS Assistant…
Last Friday BIS issued its new and final rule in the war of the iPods pursuant to which the U.S. has proposed to ban export of “luxury items” to North Korea. These sanctions were allegedly directed at the power elite…