Last Friday, the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) issued a Notice of a Proposed Rule that would eliminate the requirement for DDTC approval before a foreign licensee could transfer technical data about a licensed defense article to…
ABOVE: Alex Latifi According to an online report posted today on the Birmingham News website, the Department of Justice agreed to pay Alex Latifi $290,000 in restitution arising out the government’s unsuccessful prosecution of Latifi on criminal export charges. Latifi…
Tacoma-based Service Steel Aerospace Corp. recently agreed to pay a $12,000 fine to the Bureau of Industry and Security arising out of exports of titanium rods to Israel and Mexico. The company had voluntarily disclosed to BIS that it had…
ABOVE: Purchase the teapot for $1200 directly from the artistsMike Leavitt and Charles Krafft The State Department issued last week its annual Country Reports on Terrorism for 2009. Originally scheduled for release on April 30th, the report was inexplicably delayed…
The over-burdened Office of Antiboycott Compliance (“OAC”) at the Bureau of Industry and Security, which engaged in all of three enforcement actions in 2009, is gunning for a record this year having just released its tenth settlement agreement for 2010.…