ABOVE: Strait of Hormuz Some excellent reporting by Eric Lipton in an article in today’s New York Times suggests that the UAE is mostly giving lip service to export control. Yousef al-Otaiba, an adviser to the crown prince of the…
ABOVE: Endevco 7270A-200K accelerometer We’ve posted here previously about the indictment of Qing Li for allegedly attempting to export Endevco 7270A-200K accelerometers without a license to China. That case is proceeding to trial, and the trial court rejected* Qing Li’s…
Of course, you didn’t expect that this blog would let a story about an arms company run by a 22-year-old kid and a 25-year-old “professional masseur” escape without comment, did you? The story, which the New York Times broke on…
I was saddened to learn today that one of the lions of the export bar, Don Weadon, passed away on Easter Sunday after a series of strokes that he suffered early that morning. Don was a kind and generous person,…
While everyone in the export community is enjoying a little schadenfreude over the Department of Defense’s inadvertent export of nuclear missile fuses to Taiwan, we shouldn’t lose sight that there are still plenty of civilian exporters that might want to…