Back in February, this blog lamented the change in the format of the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) on the website of the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”). The agency deleted the PDF version of the regulations, which was clearly…
As noted in yesterday’s post dealing with the proposed rule by the Bureau and Industry and Security (“BIS”) on the transfer of United States Munitions List (“USML”) items to the Commerce Control List (“CCL”), parts and components of USML items…
Let’s say that you were an agency like the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) and you had a huge and complex list of sensitive items that needed a license for export. Now, unless your administrative goal was to collect…
In tomorrow’s Federal Register, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security will propose, as part of the export reform initiative, a new license exception called the Strategic Trade Authorization (STA). The new license exception will eliminate current license…
A joint statement released today by President Obama and Prime Minister Singh of India announced a new planned cooperation between the United States and India. Long on aspiration and short on details, the statement says that the two countries have…