Left Behind
For those of you who didn’t get to go to the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget and have been left behind, like me, to swelter in the heat and humidity of late June in the District of Columbia (or…
OMV to State: Pound Sand
Last week we reported on increased jawboning by the State Department, which has been threatening to impose sanctions under the Iran Sanctions Act on foreign oil companies that do business in Iraq. One target singled out by State is the…
DDTC Still Can’t Find Its Way With Inertial Navigational Chips
The QRS-11 navigational chip, perhaps the poster child for the so-called ITAR creep phenomenon, still bedevils the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. Today, the DDTC issued a final rule amending the rule excluding the QRS-11 chip from the United States…
U.S. Threatens Secondary Boycott of Companies Doing Business in Iran
Threats by the United States to impose new sanctions against Iran include threats to take the Iran Sanctions Act out of mothballs and to start imposing sanctions authorized by that act against foreign companies investing in Iran’s petroleum sector. According…
I Do Suspect the Lusty Moore
Here’s more on Moore — which is a transparent ploy by me to start another food fight in the comments section to this post about whether Moore is a big fat liar or a champion of the people. Export Law…