While I was traveling earlier this month, I missed the latest release of civil penalty information by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”). Both KLM and Geico were fined. We’ll look at the KLM case today and…
The last four items posted by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) — and which are linked here, here, here, and here) on its list of reported export violations — all involved impositions of export denial orders on individuals…
ABOVE: Nigel Howard Malpass [See update at the end of this post.] Who is Nigel Malpass? Well, for starters, he was elected in 2008 as a local authority commissioner for Ramsey, a hamlet on the Isle of Man, the rogue…
An article (subscription required) in the latest issue of Inside U.S. Trade describes an interview the publication held with a “senior administration official” on the White House’s proposed export control reforms. According to the official, an interagency agreement should occur…
ABOVE: On-shore Cuban oil rig An article in the National Journal reveals that OFAC recently granted a license to permit the International Association of Drilling Contractors to send a U.S. delegation to Cuba to train the Cubans on proper off-shore…