Some interesting news today on the sanctions front, so it’s time for another Export Law Blog grab bag: The Iranians aren’t very happy about the sanctions imposed yesterday by the Treasury Department on the Export Development Bank of Iran (“EDBI”),…
The winner of today’s breathlessly exaggerated headline contest goes to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) for this: COMMERCE DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT PARTNERS, BREAK UP IRANIAN RING CHARGED WITH PROCURING IED COMPONENTS Although this headline conjures up a Eliot Ness…
Donald Wayne Hatch, the owner of Rigel Optics, an online distributor of Russian night vision equipment, entered into a plea agreement yesterday in connection with an indictment that alleged that he had illegally exported night vision equipment without a license.…
In addition to the general stupidity of killing animals that you don’t even eat, there may be another reason to cancel any upcoming safaris in Zimbabwe that you may have planned. President Bush today signed new sanctions against 1 individual…
Posting was light last week because I was speaking at a symposium at the University of Pennsylvania Law School being conducted by the law schools Journal of International Law. The symposium was titled “Trade Sanctions in a 21st Century Economy:…