The Office of Antiboycott Compliance of the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) released a settlement agreement that it recently entered into with American Rice, Inc., pursuant to which American Rice agreed to pay $30,000 to settle charges that American…
ABOVE: USML Category II(a) I always tell clients that even an obsolete military item can be on the United States Munitions List (“USML”) and require an export license. Still, not all obsolete military items are on the USML. Maces, catapults,…
Some interesting news today on the sanctions front, so it’s time for another Export Law Blog grab bag: The Iranians aren’t very happy about the sanctions imposed yesterday by the Treasury Department on the Export Development Bank of Iran (“EDBI”),…
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) today announced that it was adding the Export Development Bank of Iran (“EDBI”) to its list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons. The effect of the designation is to freeze all assets…
Country-based sanctions start to get leaky in the age of the Internet. How does a software download service know whether or not it’s providing a service to an individual in a sanctioned country? A blogger at PBS’s Mediashift Blog notes…