Month July 2012

OFAC Drops CISADA Bomb on Two Banks

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) today applied sanctions under the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act of 2010 against the Bank of Kunlun in China and the Elaf Islamic Bank in Iraq. Under these sanctions, U.S. financial…

Check The List Or Go To School

Kesco Shipping Corporation and Multi-Link Container Line, a freight forwarder and a shipping line respectively, have agreed to pay $28,000 to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) to settle charges that they aided an unlicensed export of scrap steel,…

Your Tax Dollars At Work

ABOVE: Zachary Sanders A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a young American teaching English in Mexico decided to take a trip to Cuba. Today, after fourteen years of legal maneuvering with the Department of Treasury’s Office…

Double Jeopardy?

A colleague brought back an interesting tidbit from the BIS Update Conference last week relating to one of the unresolved conundrums of the current export reform efforts. Under the currently proposed reforms, certain items on the United States Munitions List…

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…