Plexon, Inc., a small neuroscience company located in Dallas, Texas, has agreed to pay $1.7 million in civil penalties to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) for the export of equipment, allegedly classified as 4A994.k. and referred to as…
BIS recently announced a settlement with Mohawk Global Logistics Corporation for $155,000 ($20,000 of which was suspended if Mohawk behaved itself during a probationary period). The penalty arose out of Mohawk’s export of items to institutions on the Entity List…
The John McCain National Defense Authorization Act of 2018, in addition to passing the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”), which reforms the CFIUS process, also enacted the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (“ECRA”). That name…
Earlier this week, the Bureau of Industry and Security re-imposed on Chinese telecom giant ZTE a seven-year export denial order which the agency imposed and suspended on March 23. 2017. That March 2017 order noted that the suspension could be…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) recently announced that Pilot Air Freight had agreed to a $175,000 fine ($75,000 of which was suspended) to settle charges that it had aided and abetted an attempted unlicensed export by one of…