Today DDTC released its final transition plan for the first wave of export control reform under which certain items in Category VIII of the USML are transitioned to a new “600 series” of controls in Category 9 of the CCL.…
Yesterday the United Nations, by a lopsided 154-3 vote, approved the Arms Trade Treaty. The three “no” votes came from Iran, Syria and North Korea. Joining with those three countries in opposing the treaty will likely be the U.S. Congress, seemingly…
Have you had a license application pending at the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) to export a defense article mysteriously denied? If so, you might have been “blue lanterned,” or, more accurately, the end user might have been “blue…
Well, today is truly a red letter day in the annals of ITAR registration puffery. For the first time ever (at least that I’ve seen), we have a company boasting that it has received ITAR re-certification. This blog has reported…
Buried among all the articles on the recent events on the Hill, the Washington Post snuck in an article on the White House’s export control reform initiative and on export controls in general. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the reporter gets…