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…
Better Get An Export License For That Belt
A Wisconsin-based company, with the appealing name Humane Restraints, Inc., recently agreed to settle charges that it exported without licenses various restraining items worth approximately $15,000 and classified under ECCN 0A982. Pursuant to the settlement agreement, Humane Restraints agreed to…
Burma Sanctions Shaved
Back in May this blog reported on Secretary of State Clinton’s announcement that the U.S. would issue general licenses permitting export of financial services to, and investment in, Burma. Yesterday those general licenses were issued by the Department of Treasury’s…
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About MNNA Status*
On July 6, the White House signed a memorandum designating “the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan as a major Non-NATO Ally.” This is the first MNNA designation since 2004 when Kuwait, Morocco and Pakistan were designated. More interestingly, Afghanistan now holds…
BIS Introduces an Export Version of Drunk Driving School
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) recently released documents relating to the settlement of charges against a California man, York Yuan Chang, in connection with alleged unlicensed technology exports by Chang to the 24th Research Institute of the China…