When companies wind up with products in Iran, they usually claim that they were hoodwinked by their overseas sales reps or agents. In a case involving the German security firm Dräger Safety, the situation appears reversed. According to this article…
Today the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) added three Burmese entities to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, i.e., the SDN List. Among the three entities was the Myanmar Gem Enterprise, the state-owned monopoly that is in…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) released yesterday a Settlement Agreement with Engineering Dynamics, Inc., a Louisiana-based company that writes and distributes computer-assisted design software used for the design of oil and gas drilling platforms and rigs. Under the…
Yesterday the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) announced new documentation requirements for export licenses. Failure to meet this requirement can result in an export license being returned without action although DDTC says that for an “interim” period of unspecified…
The Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog had an interesting post last Friday regarding Iranian santurs (a dulcimer-like instrument) that a UCLA professor of ethnomusicology had been importing from Tehran. These instruments had been sailing through customs until last August when…