ABOVE: Mamadou Tandja The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) announced today that applications for exports of defense items and services to Niger might be delayed, possibly for a really, really long time: In response to recent events in the…
ABOVE: Andrew Shapiro testifying today before Senate Foreign Relations Committee The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today held a hearing on the Defense Trade Cooperation Treaties between the United States and the United Kingdom and between the United States and Australia.…
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) published today in the Federal Register a Notice indicating that it was adding a sixth exception to National Security Presidential Directive–56 which mandated a 60-day processing time for export license applications. According to…
In addition to changing the definition of “broker,” the proposed new rules under Part 129 of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations expand the jurisdictional reach of those rules over foreign persons. Part 129 currently covers brokering activities by U.S.…
As the saying goes, more tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. And a sad example of this may be the amendments that the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) has proposed to the definition of brokering activities…