Pursuant to a provision of the recently passed Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008, DDTC announced that it is now its policy to deny export licenses for defense articles and services to Sri Lanka. A last minute amendment to the embargo provision…
The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) released today a final rule making it easier to transfer technical data under a technical assistance agreement (“TAA”) to third-country nationals, i.e., nationals of countries other than the country specifically authorized…
On December 3, Philip Cheng from Cupertino, California, was sentenced to a two-year prison term for his involvement in a scheme to export night vision equipment to China. Cheng, an export broker, had been involved in a transaction in which…
Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA) recently introduced, with one other Democrat and two Republicans, a bill to “improve the performance of the defense trade controls functions of the Department of State.” The proposed legislation is a clear response to mounting exporter…
Almost a year after the last plenary of the Wassenaar Arrangement approved and adopted changes to the Wassenaar List of Dual-Use Goods and Technologies, the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) yesterday released a final rule implementing those changes on…