Last week the the Department of State announced that it had reached an “administrative agreement with Alpine Aerospace Corporation and TS Trade Tech Incorporated of New Jersey to resolve violations of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) related to the export of significant military equipment.”
According to [...]
The Cuban Communist Party wrapped up its Congress propaganda summit in Havana this week. Some people could only laugh. Indeed. It is a dead end. A prelude of what is to come for many these political troglodytes.
Meanwhile, the Treasury Department, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published an updated list of Authorized [...]
It is not what advocates of export control reform necessarily wanted to hear, however, a recently completed study for the Congress that was released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirms prior reports that both our allies and enemies continue to try to steal the most advanced U.S. technologies. While nothing new, U.S. companies [...]
According to the Associated Press, “Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority — and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the U.S. itself.” Read the entire story, here. Hudson Institute: Basque ETA Terrorists [...]
While on a trip in Asia, President Obama issued an Executive Order creating a Federal Export Enforcement Coordination Center (FEECC) that “subject to the availability of appropriations” will serve as an export control enforcement referee among numerous federal agencies.
The Obama Administration had a unique opportunity to streamline licensing and enforcement of [...]
Republicans won control this week of 1/3 control of the federal political branches. The new Congress is months from being sworn in, but opinionsalreadyaplenty what all this will mean in the foreign affairs and national security law and public policy arena. Word around town is that State Department/DDTC [...]
National security experts discuss how radical Muslims may be using Shari’ah to subvert U.S. law and interests. The Tech Apps Group blog most recent post, “Lessons Learned from Blackwater,” is worth a read. ”Like a broken record, I’m always saying that you had better get expert help in order to ensure you [...]
Gilberto Câmara, General Director of Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE), earlier this summer said that putting humans in outer space was a “complete waste of money,” adding that the U.S. space program “only serves the purpose of maintaining what Eisenhower called the industrial military complex.” Câmara’s barb was not the first, and certainly not the [...]
Yesterday the U.S. Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) published the following guidance:
Requests for Proviso Reconsideration and/or Clarification. Available, here. Support Documentation Requirements for license applications for temporary exports of defense articles and temporary imports of unclassified defense articles. Available, here. Reminding applicants of license support documentation [...]
It is Friday of Memorial Day weekend so I am going to go a little off topic and, for non-MAC users, this may be a bizarre post. But, I am likely speaking for many MAC lawyers who have a federal regulatory practice. My case involves D-TRADE – an export licensing system at the Department of [...]
Zimbabwean governors with chauffer-driven government issue Mercedes Benz E280s complain that U.S. and E.U. sanctions make travel time in the country difficult. Guess sanctions are working. Clif Burns at the Export Law Blog pens how the U.S. Government has imposed export controls on those “naughty” airport screening machines. Housekeeping note, DDTC should [...]
Folks who read this site are familiar with the export control reform talisman. Seems like it has been getting a lot of use lately. Be sure to read the following piece from today’s Washington Times.
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