The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) released today a notice of a final rule amending certain of the rules relating to crime control commodities. Items covered by BIS’s crime controls are controlled because of the fear that these items…
The ninth annual Habanos Festival just wound up in Havana. The festival, a five day celebration of Cuban cigars, attracts cigar enthusiasts from all over the world — including the United States. You really have to like Cuban cigars to…
In an earlier post, we took the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) to task for filing a default motion against William Kovacs to deny his export privileges even though he was in jail for his export violation and his…
In today’s Federal Register, the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) published a decision by an Administrative Law Judge finding William Kovacs in default in responding to a charging letter, fining him $66,000, and suspending his export privileges for five…
The prior post “BIS Continues to Stack Deck Against Voluntary Disclosures” has been updated and revised to reflect the fact that there were two transactions, not one, involved in that case.