Nebraska-based Springer Magrath Co. pleaded guilty to criminal export violations and agreed to pay a $50,000 fine for its shipment of cattle prods to South Africa in 2002 without a license. Cattle prods and other discharge type arms such as…
Well, close, but not exactly. The fine arose from export of bubonic plague toxins to Tanzania where, like coal in Newcastle, bubonic plague (both in the wild and in the laboratory) is plentiful. In the September 14 Federal Register, the…
An excellent article in the current Business Week underlines the indefensibility of current export controls imposed by BIS on commodities which are listed in the “Crime Control” category. But another striking form of tech commerce with China is taking place…
In today’s Federal Register, OFAC announced new restrictions it is imposing on Iran’s Bank Saderat. The bank, which is state-owned, is one of the largest banks in Iran. Under the new rules, effective retroactively to September 8, 2006, exceptions in…
In December 2005, a plenary conference of the Wassenaar Arrangement made a number of changes to its “List of Dual-Use Goods and Technologies and Munitions List.” A summary of those changes can be found here. Today BIS finally got around…