Happy Blogiversary!
Because it is another slow day in the export law world, I thought I’d use the opportunity of today’s post to note that on Tuesday Export Law Blog was one year old. Since our initial post, there have been 207…
Don’t Believe Everything You Read in the Newspaper. . .
. . . especially when the newspaper is Granma, the official daily “newspaper” of the Cuban government. Export law news being somewhat slow in these final weeks of August, I thought it might be amusing to see what Granma had…
Freight Forwarder Fined For False Statements on Export Documents
If you thought BIS could only come after you for exports of dual-use items, you would be wrong — a lesson learned the hard way by P.R.A. World Wide Trading Co., Inc., a freight forwarder which was fined $250,000 pursuant…
U.S. Prepares to Designate Eritrea as State Sponsor of Terrorism
During a briefing held today Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jindayi Frazer announced that the United States is preparing to designate Eritrea as a “state sponsor of terrorism.” Such a designation would be made under the provisions of…
Mapping the Cuban Che-Gnome
An excellent news story in the Miami Herald by Douglas Hanks on the Travelocity fine, which we first blogged about here, raises some interesting questions. (Full disclosure: Hanks interviewed me for the article). First, Hanks (being a real reporter and…