ABOVE: Majid Kakavand Amir Ardebili, who we posted on here and here, is not the only Iranian being chased by U.S. prosecutors for activities he committed entirely outside the United States and which were legal in the country where they…
Virginia-based Taipan Enterprises Ltd. pleaded guilty to, and paid a $15,000 fine for, charges that it illegally engaged in arms-brokering without registering with, and obtaining licenses from, the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”). The Statement of Facts that supported…
As enterprises began to confront the issues raised by cloud computing, this article on TMCnet is a good reminder that export issues may be some of the most intractable. Although some clouds, like Amazon’s EC2, provide servers in defined locations,…
We previously reported a change announced by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) adding a sixth exception to National Security Presidential Directive–56 which mandated a 60-day processing time for export license applications. Sharp-eyed reader Robin noted that there was…
For reasons known only to the IT folks at the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”), the agency’s electronic export licensing system (D-Trade) adopted the quirky, non-standard PureEdge Viewer as the software required to fill out and digitally sign export…