With a new administration in the White House, opponents of the Cuba embargo are hoping to pass legislation that could gradually chip away at the total embargo in place against the island. Last week Representative Bill Delahunt [D-Mass.] introduced the…
A website notice mysteriously appeared today in the advisory opinion section of the website for the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”). Titled “Website Notice on Transfers of Licenses,” I’m not so sure what its doing in the advisory opinion…
ABOVE:Wermelskirchen An indictment was filed last Thursday in Federal District Court in Boston against Schneider GMBH, a manufacturer and exporter of industrial products located in Wermelskirchen, Germany, for conspiracy to export pump parts from the United States to Iran. The…
Retired Russian merchant ship Monchegorsk, alleged to be carrying Iranian arms shipments, wound up in Cypriot hands after being forced by the U.S. Navy to moor in Cyprus last week. The ship was searched by Cypriot authorities which on Tuesday…
Yesterday the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) released four settlement agreements arising out of a scheme by a large Taiwanese company to use its U.S. subsidiary to export products (mostly chemicals, metals and electronic components) on the Commerce Control…