The defense trade cooperation treaties signed by the United States with the United Kingdom and Australia may have just become victims of election year politics. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee announced today, according to this report in Defense News, that…
The winner of today’s breathlessly exaggerated headline contest goes to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) for this: COMMERCE DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT PARTNERS, BREAK UP IRANIAN RING CHARGED WITH PROCURING IED COMPONENTS Although this headline conjures up a Eliot Ness…
The common wisdom is that the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) has a “see-through” rule for exports of defense articles, but that the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) does not have a see-through rule for exports of dual…
Yesterday the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) added the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (“IRISL”) and its related companies to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (“SDN”) list. As part of this designation, 123 vessels…
A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia indicted an Indian national, Siddabasappa Suresh, and an Indian company, Rajaram Engineering Corporation, for unlicensed exports of U.S.-origin export-controlled goods to the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, an Indian government agency listed…