On September 18, BIS entered an order against Mohammad al-Mashan and and order against the Mohammad al-Mashan Group denying both of them export privileges for ten years. The Mohammed al-Mashan Group is a Kuwait-based exporter of molds made from recycled…
Supermicro, Inc., a computer hardware manufacturer based out of San Jose, California, pleaded guilty on Monday to a criminal export violation and agreed to pay a criminal penalty of $150,000. Supermicro admitted that on or about December 28, 2001, it…
Nebraska-based Springer Magrath Co. pleaded guilty to criminal export violations and agreed to pay a $50,000 fine for its shipment of cattle prods to South Africa in 2002 without a license. Cattle prods and other discharge type arms such as…
Well, close, but not exactly. The fine arose from export of bubonic plague toxins to Tanzania where, like coal in Newcastle, bubonic plague (both in the wild and in the laboratory) is plentiful. In the September 14 Federal Register, the…
An excellent article in the current Business Week underlines the indefensibility of current export controls imposed by BIS on commodities which are listed in the “Crime Control” category. But another striking form of tech commerce with China is taking place…