Campo de Sueños
The Twin State Peregrines, a little league baseball team from Vermont and New Hampshire, is currently playing ball in Cuba with Cuban teams their own age, the first little league tour of Cuba by an American team since 2000 and…
Draft Rules For U.S.-U.K. Export Treaty Released
On Monday, the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) published on its website the minutes of the June 19th meeting of the Defense Trade Advisory Group, and attached to those minutes was a draft of the proposed implementing rules for…
Lockheed’s Voluntary Disclosure Leads to $4 Million Fine
Last week Lockheed-Martin agreed to pay $4 million in fines arising from (1) a proposal it made to the UAE for the sale of Hellfire missiles without providing prior notice of the proposal to the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls…
Who You Gonna Call, Listbusters?
As previously reported on this blog, Syriatel, Syria’s largest provider of mobile phone service, was recently put on the Specially Designated Nationals (“SDN”) List by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”). As a result, U.S. citizens are prohibited from…
Chinese Company Fined $1.2 Million Over Cuba Trade
ABOVE: Nickel Production in Cuba The latest release by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) of recent civil penalty cases reports that Minxia Non-Ferrous Metals, Inc., remitted $1,198,000 to settle allegations that between 2003 and 2006 it purchased or…