BIS, Canada, Commerce Dept, Denied & Restricted Parties, EAR, Enforcement, Violations & Fines
By: Danielle Hatch Alexis Vlachos, 41, of Montreal, Quebec has been sentenced to 51 months in prison for smuggling over 104 handguns from the US to Canada between 2010 and 2011. Vlachos worked with Annette Wexler and Jaime Ruiz to create a scheme to purchase handguns...
BIS, Commerce Dept, Denied & Restricted Parties, EAR, Press release
By: Danielle Hatch The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has released a General Advisory Opinion to help field some of the many questions it has received since the addition of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei) and many of its non-US affiliates to BIS’s Entity...
BIS, Commerce Dept, Denied & Restricted Parties, EAR, Pakistan
Pakistan has a nuclear program and a missile program that are subject to end-use and end-user restrictions pursuant to Part 744 of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This guidance highlights: The supplemental licensing requirements applicable to exports,...
BIS, Commerce Dept, EAR, License Exceptions, Licensing
By: Kevin J. Wolf, Esq., kwolf@akingump.com, +1 202-887-4051;Shiva Aminian, Esq., saminian@akingump.com, +1 310 552 6476; and Chris Chamberlain, cchamberlain@akingump.com, +1 202-887-4308, all of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. Key Points: The Department of...
BIS, Commerce Dept, EAR, Freight forwarder, Freight Forwarding
By: Derrick Kyle, Esq., Nicole Aandahl, Esq., both of Torres Trade Law, http://www.torrestradelaw.com Historically, the U.S. Government has pursued civil and criminal actions against exporters for violating the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) and...
BIS, CCL, EAR, ECCN Changes, Information Technology, Press release, Reform
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) begins a roll out of new regulations on emerging technologies agreed to by Wassenaar member states. Each year, BIS publishes final rules (without the usual notice of proposed rulemaking) of changes to US national...
