Unless you have been vacationing on the dark side of the moon today, you probably have seen that the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) told Defense Distributed to take down the plans that it had posted for producing a…
A federal district court in Chicago recently unsealed a criminal complaint against an Illinois man for importing an oil pump and attempting to import some LED traffic lights from Taiwan to the United States. The reason that these activities are…
ABOVE: Apstar-7 launch in China Picture this scenario: a U.S. defense contractor leases time on a Chinese satellite and uses the transponders of that satellite to beam ITAR-controlled technical data between and among its facilities in the United States. The…
ABOVE: Computerlinks FZCOHQ, DSO Building, Dubai The Dubai subsidiary of Munich-based Computerlinks recently agreed to pay $2.8 million dollars to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) to settle charges that the Dubai subsidiary exported sophisticated Internet surveillance software to…
ABOVE: Robert Mugabe OFAC last week issued its first general license for U.S. sanctions relating to Zimbabwe. The license authorizes for the most part “all transactions involving Agricultural Development Bank of Zimbabwe and Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe.” Both banks,…