Lisong Ma, a Chinese national, pleaded guilty last week to charges that he attempted to export carbon fiber from the United States without a license. Carbon fiber meeting certain technical qualifications is classified as ECCN 1C010 and would require a…
Not long ago, I posted on an announcement by Samsung that it was closing its app store for Iranian customers. I speculated that paid apps were at least part of the problem because they were not covered by the 2010 OFAC general license…
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) recently announced that it removed Iraq’s Elaf Islamic Bank from its Part 561 List. Elaf became noteworthy last July when it and China’s Bank of Kunlun became the first two foreign financial institutions…
The Washington Post reported today that a confidential report from a Pentagon advisory group indicated that Chinese hackers had obtained sensitive military plans for a number of defense systems, including the Patriot Missile PAC-3, the F/A-18 fighter jet, the V-22…
In November 2011, Immigration and Customs Enforcement breathlessly announced that it had broken a honey dumping scheme and had indicted three Chinese nationals for trying to avoid dumping duties on Chinese honey by importing mislabeled Chinese honey as rice fructose.…