From the monthly archives: October 2009
The Law Library of Congress – a non-partisan entity of the Library of Congress – has come under attack by high-ranking Congressional Democrats for a recent legal opinion on the situation in Honduras. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-Calif.) are trying to politically [...]
This morning in Managua, Nicaragua there are reports that the U.S. Embassy was vandalized by supporters of the leftist Sandinistas party. Borrowing a page from the Castro-Chavez playbook for re-making Latin America in the Bolivarian image – just take a look at what they are doing over in Honduras – the Sandinista government is accusing [...]
Several readers have requested that I post more often on Cuba. But because nothing of substance is really taking place on the U.S.-Cuba policy front, it has been a bit since I penned on the matter. This past week, however, Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) has reportedly sent a letter to the Obama Administration asking them [...]
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs announced yesterday that the President would seek engage the regime of state sponsor of terror Sudan. According to an article in Politico, the Administration “would help enact a more “comprehensive policy” for dealing with Sudan’s political instability.” This “new” approach will not advance U.S. interests, [...]
The U.K. Export Control Organization has issued a new Notice on exporting to Iran. This new notice updates all exporters with additional questions and answers concerning financial sanctions as well as trading with Bank Mellat and the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) following a statement issued by HM Treasury on 12 October 2009. You [...]
In a speech in Spain last week, Zimbabwean Prime Minister and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai made a plea to European leaders to ease what he called “restrictive measures” (i.e., economic sanctions) on his country.
Ironically, many of the U.S. and European sanctions were put in place in response to the arrest of Tsvangirai [...]
Every now and then, usually when I post about it, I receive critical e-mail from folks about my stance on export control reform and why massive reforms of the system should be made in a piecemeal fashion. One of the reasons for this stance is that “reform” (updating a more accurate term) of the processes [...]
The Treasury Department, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) yesterday published guidance related to the shipment of spare parts for medical devices initially exported pursuant to a Trade Sanctions Reform Act (TSRA) license. It also addresses what exporters need to do when medical devices breaks and need to be returned for repair. Under both scenarios, OFAC [...]
In case you have not heard about it yet, I wanted to pass along information on a relatively new group of individuals and organizations that have teamed up to raise awareness on the dangers of a nuclear Iran.
The group, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a “bi-partisan, broad-based coalition in formation that will comprise individuals [...]
Over at the Export Law Blog, Clif Burns pens on a speech by Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on export control reforms. While it made a whole lot of sense in the mid 1990s to reform the old export control system – Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls – I still think the current [...]
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