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…
BIS released yesterday information on a default judgment entered against Daqing Zhou for arranging the export of microwave transmitters covered by ECCN 3A001 to China. Microwave amplifiers are used in a number of military applications including radar, communications and communications…
The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported today on a speech given by Kenneth Mouradian, the Director of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Export Assistance office in Orlando, and this surprising advice that he gave to potential exporters in Florida: “I don’t…
An article in today’s Jerusalem Post reports that the Arab Boycott of Israel, often thought to be on the wane, is alive and well and perhaps on the rise: According to material compiled by the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of…