We’d like to think that our post critical of the SEC’s list of public companies doing business in Syria, Sudan, Cuba, North Korea, and Iran had something to do with the SEC’s decision to remove the list from its website.…
Houston-based oil-drilling and oilfield services company Weatherford announced yesterday in its 8-K filing with the SEC that the company has been notified that the Bureau of Industry & Security and the U.S. Department of Justice are investigating allegations of improper…
An editorial in Friday’s Wall Street Journal was critical of the United Nations Development Program (“UNDP”) for several supposedly illegal exports. The criticism seems to be largely based on the questionable claim that the UNDP was required to obtain export…
Roy Lee Oakley, an unskilled maintenance worker, was indicted on July 17 and charged with violating section 224 of the Atomic Energy Act (42 U.S.C. § 2274). The charges were based on Oakley’s alleged attempts to export gas diffusion barriers…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) has released new regulations explaining the treatment that BIS will give to voluntary disclosures of BIS’s antiboycott regulations. Those regulations, for example, prohibit exporters from certifying to Arab League countries that exported products…