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…
Last Friday, BIS released a final rule implementing certain understandings of the annual plenary of the Australia Group in June. The new rules apply controls to pipes, vessels, valves and related equipment made of niobium or niobium alloys. It also…
BIS released a public notice today revising the country chart to reflect that Montenegro seceded from Serbia and Montenegro. Not surprisingly, the column entries for Montenegro and the column entries for Serbia on the country chart will be identical. Updating…
In a clever marketing ploy timed to coincide with the release of the latest James Bond film, BIS has issued new rules relating to the export of surreptitious listening devices (“SLDs”). The Notice announcing the final rule, however, is hardly…
I admit that this is an inflammatory headline. But the recent settlement agreement entered in the EP MedSystems matter does little to refute the common wisdom that companies should never file a voluntary disclosure with BIS unless they are almost…