UAE Responds to U.S. Pressure and Adopts Export Laws
Last Friday, the UAE announced it’s long-promised export law. The new law not only forbids the unlicensed export of “strategic goods” including military hardware, CBW precursors and dual use items but also creates a catch-all exception that would allow the…
U.K. Legislative Committee Tackles Brokering Issues
Earlier this month, the the House of Commons’ Quadripartite Committee released a report entitled Strategic Export Controls: 2007 Review. In the report, the Committee recommends that the U.K. adopt a broker registration system that is interesting both in itself and…
Who Wants to Play The Price is Right?
Three of the 167 counts charged against Armor Holdings which led to the recent $1,102,200 settlement agreement related to charges that Armor exported items in excess of licensed value in violation of EAR Section 764.2(a). For example, Armor exported plastic…
General Order No. 3 Strikes Again
Ace Systems, a Georgia-based reseller of refurbished voice cards and other PC-based telephony products, agreed to a fine of $36,000 to settle these charges as set forth in the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Charging Letter: On or about July…