In an ambitious display of extraterritorial overreach, the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) last week amended the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) to expand the scope of the regulations to cover in-country transfers to companies and individuals on the agency’s…
In my last post on the new Cuba regulations, I hadn’t yet seen the regulations published by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) in the Federal Register on September 8 but had only seen press reports about their supposed…
An article published Wednesday in the Miami Herald breathlessly announced that the reporter had been told that the new OFAC and BIS rules implementing the changes to the Cuba embargo announced by the administration in April would appear in Thursday’s…
The exquisitely-monikered and equally notorious Monsieur Jacques Monsieur (or Mister Mister as he is affectionately known here)(pictured on the left) was nabbed last Friday when he arrived in New York and then sent to Mobile, Alabama, to face charges that…
Thermon Manufacturing, based in San Marcos, Texas, agreed to pay $14,613.24 (and not one penny more or less) in civil penalties to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) in connection with three exports by the company to Sudan in…