Earlier this afternoon, the State Department issued a press release announcing a settlement it had reached with Interturbine Aviation Logistics GmbH, Germany, and its Texas branch office, Interturbine Aviation Logistics GmbH, LLC, for alleged violatons of the Arms Export Control…
There has never been a seriously-advocated rational reason for the U.S., unlike most other countries, to have one export agency regulating exports of weapons and a separate export agency regulating exports of dual use items. A new regulation adopted by…
On Tuesday, the website of the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls announced that it had updated its “Guidelines for the Permanent Export, Temporary Export and Temporary Import of Firearms and Ammunitions.” Although DDTC did not identify or explain the changes…
We previously reported a change announced by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) adding a sixth exception to National Security Presidential Directive–56 which mandated a 60-day processing time for export license applications. Sharp-eyed reader Robin noted that there was…
For reasons known only to the IT folks at the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”), the agency’s electronic export licensing system (D-Trade) adopted the quirky, non-standard PureEdge Viewer as the software required to fill out and digitally sign export…