BIS Goes After Shipping Clerk

The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) just published on its website a settlement agreement with someone who appears to been simply a shipping clerk at Universal Technology, Inc. Back in June 2006, BIS entered into a Settlement Agreement with…

Sins of the Father

Earlier this month, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit announced that it was dismissing the appeal of machine gun manufacturer and distributor U.S. Ordnance in its lawsuit against the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”). The…

New SDNs from Sudan Announced

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced expanded sanctions today against Sudan and added three individuals and thirty-one Sudanese companies to the SDN list. Doing business with these companies was already prohibited by the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations. The effect…

Another List to Check

The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) published today in the Federal Register an order denying export privileges to Super Net Computers, a Dubai-based computer retailer. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist, or a computer scientist, to guess…