Category General

A Hard Lesson

The common wisdom is that the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) has a “see-through” rule for exports of defense articles, but that the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) does not have a see-through rule for exports of dual…

Indictment Reveals BIS’s Sentinel Program in Action

A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia indicted an Indian national, Siddabasappa Suresh, and an Indian company, Rajaram Engineering Corporation, for unlicensed exports of U.S.-origin export-controlled goods to the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, an Indian government agency listed…

You Say Vinales, I Say Viñales

Last week the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) released its monthly report on civil penalties imposed by OFAC. Among those listed was a $1,769 fine imposed on Aero Vacations, a small travel agency in Los Angeles serving Spanish-speaking customers.…

More Revelations in Roth Trial

According to this report from the website of the Knoxville News Sentinel, the trial of Professor J. Reece Roth for violation of the Arms Export Control Act continued today with the testimony of Daniel Max Sherman, the only officer of…