Trade Compliance Blog

According to the Financial Times, BAE will not be allowed to obtain any new export licenses after BAE’s settlement of bribery charges.

The BIS has announced that registration is now available for the upcoming Export Control Forum this February. From BIS: Registration is now open and the agenda has been posted for the Export Control Forum, to be held on February 22-23, 2010 in Irvine, CA. We have changed the format and venue this year in response [...]

Found a succinct list of rules of thumb to ensure Trade Compliance at MondialTradeCompliance.com 10 General Prohibitions Export and re-export of controlled items to listed countries.(Get your export licenses!) Re-export and export from abroad of foreign-made items incorporating more than a de minimis amount of controlled U.S. content. Re-export and export from abroad of the [...]

With more stringent recycling and waste disposal laws now in place, European companies are finding it difficult to foot the additional costs of disposing of garbage responsibly. To avoid the expense of recycling the items or the associated taxes with destroying them, they are increasingly re-exporting the items to poor, developing countries in Asia and [...]

BIS has extended the denial of re-export privileges to Iran for Mahan Airways. The company may not directly or indirectly partipate or benefit from any transaction subject to EAR (Export Administration Regulations) for 180 days. It is also a violation of the EAR for any person to participate in a transaction subject to the EAR [...]

According to the STRtrade newlsetter: The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued orders suspending export privileges for the following individuals. • Export privileges for Andrew Ward Freyer of La Quinta, Calif., have been suspended until Dec. 17, 2017, due to Freyer’s conviction on five counts of violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and [...]

The US Bureau of Industry & Security has updated their Major Case List (PDF). Of note: On May 14, 2009, Joseph Piquet was sentenced 60 months in prison and two years of probation based on his role in a conspiracy to purchase high-tech, military-use electronic components (such as high power amplifiers for use in early [...]

DHL has signed a joint settlement agreement with BIS and OFAC to the tune of a cool $9.44 million. BIS charged that DHL was aiding and abetting exports to sanctioned countries including Syria, Iran, and Sudan. OFAC charged that DHL violated OFAC regulations, mainly dealing with recordkeeping, for thousands of shipments to Iran and Sudan [...]

Air Shunt Instruments Co, a San Fernando, CA aerospace company, has agreed to settle for $100,000 after being charged with illegal sales to the United Arab Emirates and Thailand. The company has already paid or agreed to pay much of this amount. The State Department issued a statement Wednesday saying Air Shunt Instruments Inc. signed [...]

Former University of Tennessee Professor John Reece Roth was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for violating the Arms Export Control Act. U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan said UT professor emeritus J. Reece Roth could have caused “harm to the security of the United States” by allowing foreign national students, one from China and [...]