Category BIS

BIS Strips Beijing Resident of Export Privileges

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…

Guess the ECCN!

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…

BIS Admits That Safe Harbor Was a Shipwreck

In a notice published in today’s Federal Register, BIS has withdrawn the safe harbor and red flag rules that BIS proposed in October 2004. Under those proposed rules, BIS would have increased the number of red flags from 12 to…

VEU, or Very Extremely Unlikely

At yesterday’s Export Update Conference conducted by BIS, Christopher Padilla, Assistant Secretary for Export Administration, announced that BIS was planning to expand its new concept of Validated End Users, or VEUs, beyond the proposed China catch-all regulations to other countries.…