Last month I wrote a post on the consent decree entered into by BIS and EP MedSystems where, among other things, BIS appeared to have fly-specked the differences between a preliminary disclosure and a final disclosure and argued that the…
The UAE was apparently as surprised as I was by the veiled threats of action delivered at WITA yesterday by BIS Assistant Secretary Chris Padilla. During his speech, Padilla indicated that unspecified sanctions against the UAE were imminent because of…
Illya Antonenko, one of our intrepid associate editors, attended a presentation today at the Washington International Trade Association by Chris Padilla, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration. As expected, Mr. Padilla continued to tout BIS’s plans to expand the…
Last week the GAO released an unusually critical report which chided both DDTC and BIS over the way both agencies handled deemed export issues posed by university research programs. The report was prompted by an inquiry from Representative James Sensenbrenner,…
I was going to title this post “Exporter Temporarily Loses Export Privileges for Having Copy of the EAR in Its Offices.” However, after the uproar that a similar title (“BIS Fines Exporter for Filing Voluntary Disclosure“) created at BIS, I…