The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) recently released documents detailing a settlement that it entered into with Mattson Technologies relating to Mattson’s unlicensed exports of pressure transducers classified under ECCN 2B230. That ECCN covers pressure transducers with pressure sensing…
A long article published today on the Bloomberg News website tells the story of a voluntary disclosure by Georgia Tech after one of its instructors inadvertently posted some export-controlled data on the Internet. The article follows this anecdote up with…
Last week the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) added three parties to the Entity List and imposed license requirements for exports, re-exports and in country transfers to these parties for all items subject to the Export Administration Regulations, i.e.,…
ABOVE: H5N1 virus Civil disobedience and export laws: those are two concepts not often linked together. But it appears that a Dutch researcher on the H5N1 avian virus is planning to tell Dutch authorities to take a hike and will…
In the last release of civil penalty information, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced that it whacked Essie Cosmetics Ltd. with a whopping $450,000 fine for exports the company made to Iran in violation of the U.S. embargo…