Category DDTC

The Silent Treatment

In an effort to deal with its ever increasing backlog of license applications and agreements, DDTC announced on Friday that it was locking up all its licensing officers in their offices and throwing away the keys until the backlog was…

Don’t Leave Home With It

Since not much is in the news today export-wise, other than OFAC’s addition of “El Mono” Sabogal to the SDN list1, I thought I would bring up something I’ve been wondering about since seeing a Nextel television ad for the…

The Lady (Almost) Vanishes

In the continuing D-Trade saga at DDTC, part of ELLIE vanished yesterday. ELLIE was the electronic predecessor to D-Trade. DDTC announced that, effective October 12, 2006, ELLIE may no longer be used to file DSP-5, DSP-61 and DSP-73 license applications.…

DDTC Chief: “D-Trade is De-Lovely”

In response to industry complaints about increased processing times for license applications at DDTC, Robert Maggi, the Managing Director of DDTC, said last week to an industry group that D-Trade would soon make everything better: Robert Maggi, DDTC chief, agreed…