Last week the New York Philharmonic announced that it had been forced to cancel its planned concert in Cuba at the end of October. Although the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) granted licenses to let the instrumentalists travel to…
Last week, Canadian officials announced that they had intercepted navigational microchips headed for Iran. More interestingly, in an interview that George Webb, the head of Canada Border Services Agency’s Counter Proliferation Section, gave to Canada’s National Post after the interception,…
At today’s Update Conference in Washington, D.C., Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced a sweeping vision for reform of U.S. export laws: First, we should consider eliminating certain dual-use export license requirements for allies and partner nations — consistent with statutory…
Back in 2007, I discussed in two posts (here and here) a criminal complaint filed against Netherlands-based Aviation Services International, B.V., and its owner Rob Kraaipoel, a citizen and resident of the Netherlands. The criminal complaint accused Kraaipoel and his…
Yesterday the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls issued a notice in the Federal Register seeking public comment on Form DS-4076. This form is the one proposed by DDTC for mandatory filing of Commodity Jurisdiction (“CJ”) requests with the agency via…