It seems like the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) has been working on the amendments to the brokering rules in Part 129 of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations since sometime during the Taft Administration. So when the latest…
ABOVE: Robert Mugabe One way to make sure someone is sentenced to life on the SDN list is to make it illegal for anyone to argue for removal of an SDN from the list. Of course, that would be blatantly…
The charging documents for the consent decree between Aeroflex and the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, which I wrote about last week, have now been released, and they tell an interesting, and somewhat alarming, story. It’s an alarming story because…
A press release published today on the State Department website revealed that the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls exacted a consent decree from Aeroflex in Plainview, NY, under which, among other things, Aeroflex will pay $8 million in fines as…
To blatantly plagiarize Ogden Nash, jail time for exporting rhinoceros is not something very prepocerous. Or, to put it in another less poetic way, exporting libation cups made from rhinoceros horns to China is not a smart idea. This…