Common wisdom is that for the United States to increase its exports, it needs to increase the number of exporters. And since most current exports are made by the largest companies, the Department of Commerce has argued that we need…
According to this article in the New York Times, the recent DDOS attacks launched against U.S. financial institutions were likely the work of the Government of Iran and in retaliation for U.S. sanctions against Iran and its financial institutions. These…
The new owners of Ellman International Inc., a New Jersey supplier of medical devices, agreed to pay the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) $191,700 to settle charges that the prior owners of the company exported medical devices to Iran…
Buried among all the articles on the recent events on the Hill, the Washington Post snuck in an article on the White House’s export control reform initiative and on export controls in general. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the reporter gets…
A spokesman for the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) told Export Law Blog this morning that discussions between OFAC and the North Pole over Santa Claus’s Christmas Eve itinerary had broken down and were not expected to…