FedEx Agrees To Pay $370,000 Export Penalty

Federal Express has agreed to pay to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) a penalty of $370,000 in connection with charges that it aided and abetted one export and five attempted exports between 2004 and 2006 without required export…

We’re Not Done Yet

Another problem with the arms brokering regulations proposed by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) is their jurisdictional scope, which is impossibly vague and far exceeds the scope of permissible regulation under the Brokering Amendment which was passed by…

How The OFAC Stole Christmas

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…

And It Just Gets Worse and Worse

On Monday we talked about the lump of coal the Directorate of Defense Trade Control (“DDTC”) is delivering to export lawyers for Christmas in the proposed new brokering rules that appear to require export lawyers to register as brokers and…