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…
In a notice published in today’s Federal Register, BIS has withdrawn the safe harbor and red flag rules that BIS proposed in October 2004.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…
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.…
BIS released today a document entitled “Defense Industrial Base Assessment: U.S. Imaging and Sensor’s Industry.” This report, requested by the Army in May 2005, comes almost a year late from the delivery date of December 2005 originally requested by the…