Export Law Blog
Export Law Blog covers current issues in export law, including export controls imposed by the department of state, the department of commerce, and the department of treasury. The blog also covers issues relating to country, regime and individual economic sanctions, anti-boycott restrictions, as well as criminal prosecutions and civil penalty actions arising from export violations.
Author: Clif Burns is a partner at Powell Goldstein in Washington, D.C.
Blawg Related Categories: Government Law • International Law • Partner • Economics
Recent Posts from Export Law Blog
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You Say Vinales, I Say Viñales
Last week the Office of Foreign Assets Control (”OFAC”) released its monthly report on civil penalties imposed by OFAC. Among those listed was a $1,769 fine imposed on Aero Vacations, a small travel agency in…
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Wednesday Export Law Grab Bag
We’re back from vacation and we’re back with a grab bag of things: University of Tennessee Professor J. Reece Roth was convicted on eighteen counts, including violations of the Arms Export Control Act for permitting…
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More Revelations in Roth Trial
According to this report from the website of the Knoxville News Sentinel, the trial of Professor J. Reece Roth for violation of the Arms Export Control Act continued today with the testimony of Daniel Max…
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Opening Statements Given in Roth Trial
ABOVE: Professor Reece Roth Opening statements were made yesterday in the criminal prosecution of Professor J. Reece Roth, a retired University of Tennessee professor accused, inter alia, of violating the Arms Export Control Act. Specifically…
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BIS Publishes Final Rules Expanding Grounds for Entity List Designation
Today the Bureau of Industry and Security (”BIS”) published a final rule which expanded the criteria which the agency could use to put foreign persons and companies on its “Entity List.” Most exports of U.S.-origin…
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Another Shoe Falls on Eve of Roth Trial
ABOVE: Professor John Roth Today, on the eve of the trial of retired Professor John Roth of the University of Tennessee for permitting a Chinese graduate student to access controlled technical data relating to military…
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A Giant Problem for OFAC and the NBA
Who knew that they had giants in Iran? More specifically, who knew that Iran had a 7′2″ basketball player named Hamed Ehadadi. The NBA did, that’s who. And faster than you can say “Yao Ming,”…
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The FBI Made Me Do It
An article in today’s Washington Post provides some interesting insights into the April 2007 conviction of Pennsylvania-based Electro-Glass Products for violations of the Arms Export Control Act arising from the company’s unlicensed exports of 23,000…
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Campo de Sueños
The Twin State Peregrines, a little league baseball team from Vermont and New Hampshire, is currently playing ball in Cuba with Cuban teams their own age, the first little league tour of Cuba by an…
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Draft Rules For U.S.-U.K. Export Treaty Released
On Monday, the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (”DDTC”) published on its website the minutes of the June 19th meeting of the Defense Trade Advisory Group, and attached to those minutes was a draft of…