BIS, CCL, Commerce Dept, DDTC, Defense Trade Controls, EAR, ECCN Changes, ITAR, Press release, State Dept, USML
By: Johanna Reeves, Esq., jreeves@reevesdola.com; Reeves & Dola LLP. www.ReevesDola.com After almost ten long years of fits and starts and Congressional holds, today the U.S. Departments of State and Commerce released their respective Final Rules to remove most...
BIS, CCL, Cloud Computing, Commerce Dept, EAR, Export License, Licensing, Wassenaar
On January 6, 2020 The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to classify software specially designed to automate the analysis of geospatial imagery under the Export Control...
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...
