Nigeria has reported that it has intercepted a shipment of weapons from Iran in violation of U.N. Sanctions and plans on reporting the intercepted exports as required by the U.N. resolutions enacting those sanctions. The shipment, which originated from the…
According to this article (subscription required) in today’s Wall Street Journal, recently released Burmese human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi may reconsider her position that the international community should continue to impose sanctions on…
Because we apparently have too many agencies involved in export control, the answer to this problem is, somewhat surprisingly, yet another export agency. Today the White House issued an order establishing the Export Enforcement Coordination Center within the Department of…
This blog reported several weeks ago on a complaint brought by a small British company against Lloyds for refusing to cash a check in pounds sterling that the company had received from a Cuban customer. Lloyds had previously agreed to…
A joint statement released today by President Obama and Prime Minister Singh of India announced a new planned cooperation between the United States and India. Long on aspiration and short on details, the statement says that the two countries have…