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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The Man from Del Monte, He Says “Yes!”
Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued its slip opinion in Del Monte Fresh Produce Company v. United States. The appeals court reversed a lower court ruling that had…
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Tillery Trickery Docked . . .
. . . to the tune of $6,600. In the civil penalties information released today by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (”OFAC”), the agency reported that Willbros, a Texas-based oil and gas…
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MTN-Bharti Deal Scares Some OFAC-Wary Bankers
A report on Reuters today raised some interesting issues with respect to the MTN-Bharti deal. The merger, which would create the world’s third largest wireless telephone company, is creating some heartburn for U.S. bankers who’d…
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Sanctions Sought Against Companies Providing Telcom Equipment to Iran
Even though Iran’s mobile phone infrastructure was crucial to the ability of Iranians to send to the outside world video, still images and first-hand reports of the events in Iran, Senators Chuck Schumer and Lindsey…
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“Hear your fate, O dwellers in Flint of the wide spaces”
Michigan-based Delphi Corporation, maker of auto parts and systems, agreed to a $50,000 suspended fine in connection of three exports of triethanolamine to the PRC and to South Africa. The fine will be suspended for…
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Chips Ahoy!
More U.S. computer chips have been sighted in Iran, this time some AMD Opteron Dual Core microprocessors that the Aerospace Research Institute of Iran (”ARI”) touts it has incorporated into what passes for a supercomputer…
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Will The Revolution Be Twitterized?
According to this report in the Wall Street Journal, the State Department asked Twitter to delay again a previously scheduled downtime on the service because of unfolding events in Iran. Twitter itself had delayed the…
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Seventh Circuit Reverses Export Conviction In Rifle Scope Case
Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed* a federal district court conviction of Doli Syarief Pulungan for attempted unlicensed exports of rifles copes to Indonesia in violation of the Arms…
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BIS Claims Higher Penalties Haven’t Slowed Voluntary Disclosures
According to an article (subscription required) in today’s Inside U.S. Trade, an official of the Bureau of Industry and Security (”BIS”) told an agency advisory committee that the significant increases in penalties enacted by Congress…
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State Nominee Favors Return of Satellite Issues to Commerce
ABOVE: Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher In connection with the Senate confirmation hearing for Ellen Tauscher on Tuesday morning, Senator Lugar, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, released a pre-hearing questionnaire completed by the proposed…