Odds and Ends
Here are some odds and ends that I’ve been saving up for a post: If you speak Farsi, it’s easier to buy an iPad in Tehran than in Atlanta Customs agents at Canadian border keep America safe and pitch a…
Category General
MTCR Celebrates The Big Twenty-Five
The State Department’s Bureau of International Security and Non-Proliferation released today a fact sheet celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Missile Technology Control Regime, a multilateral initiative to control the export and dissemination of certain missile related technology. The MTCR…
Bird Flu Research Flies Into Export Laws, Crashes, Then Burns
Apparently international research on how best to prevent, contain and treat bird flu is now threatened by international laws restricting export of information relating to potential agents of biological warfare according to this report on NPR. The problem concerns research…
No Boats To Cuba
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) has nixed plans to start passenger ferry between Miami and Havana, Cuba. According to a letter sent to a company requesting such service, OFAC said that, after consulting with the State Department, such…
The Third Deadly Sin
A California man has been indicted in connection with his attempt to export radiation hardened, space qualified chips to the People’s Republic of China without an export license. The indictment, if true, tells an interesting tale. According to the indictment,…