Banana Flambé
News accounts of the circumstances surrounding the agreement of Chiquita Brands to pay a $25 million criminal fine for payments made to a rebel group in Columbia don’t really tell the whole story. That story can be found in the…
Category Sanctions
House Bill Targets Multinationals in Iran, Misses
Last week the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously approved legislation that would expand the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996. Under the proposed legislation (H.R. 957), sanctions provided under the Iran Sanctions Act could also be imposed on U.S.…
European Court Reverses Sanctions Against Terrorist Group
“Bad cases make bad law.” The truth of that law school axiom has rarely been on better display than in yesterday’s decision by the European Court of First Instance to remove the People’s Mujahideen of Iran (Mujahideen-e-Khalq) from the EU’s…
Land Rover, Land Rover, Send Darfur a Range Rover!
You may not have heard of the SEC’s relatively new Office of Global Security Risk. But Ford Motor has heard of the OGSR. And I suspect export professionals will hear more of this SEC office in the future. The OGSR…
No More Nanos for Pyongyang
A headline to an article in today’s Washington Post breathlessly announced: “U.S. Bans Sale of iPods to North Korea.” The copy editor at the WaPo, however, jumped the gun since the ban is not yet in place. The article was…