ABOVE:Port of Fujairah Eugene Cotilli is the Media/Congressional Liason at the Department of Commerce and is the listed contact for inquiries relating to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”). Josh Lederman of the Associated Press contacted him to ask…
A lawyer, without any apparent background in export law, recently decided to write a post on export law for “In House,” which bills itself as the “FindLaw Corporate Counsel Blog.” The purpose of the post, it would seem, is to…
ABOVE:Port of Fujairah As you probably know, various Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E. and Egypt have imposed a boycott on Qatar, allegedly because of remarks that appeared on the Qatar News Agency’s website where Qatar emir Sheikh Tamim…
On June 20, a federal jury awarded a $60 million damage verdict against mammoth credit reporting agency Transunion arising from the company’s misuse of the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (the “SDN…
On Monday, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced that insurance giant AIG had agreed to pay $148,698 to settle charges that it had insured 555 shipments involving Sudan, Iran and Cuba. Although some of the apparent violations involved…