Will Watkins, one of the organizers of the Global Trade Controls Conference (see the ad in the right column), asked me to post the following: The 25th annual Global Trade Controls conference is taking place in London on 13 and…
According to settlement documents released by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”), New Jersey based Phibrochem agreed to pay $31,000 to settle charges that it exported $14,000 worth of sodium fluoride to Mexico without a license. Sodium fluoride, which…
According to this article in Aviation Week, one aspect of export reform has at least some chance of eeking through the lame duck Congress that will convene after the upcoming elections. The locus of this hope is bipartisan language in…
The recently passed Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Human Rights Act of 2012 eliminated a loophole that permitted foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies to trade with and in Iran as long as no U.S. persons were involved in the transaction. On…
ABOVE: Alexander Fishenko By now you have no doubt read about the Russian “spy” ring accused of exporting CCL and USML items to Russia without required licenses. Many newspapers, like the particularly clueless folks at The Examiner, can’t resist a…