Q: What is all the fuss about this See-Through Rule?  A: Let’s pretend you are Export Compliance SuperPerson with x-ray vision that can see through, say, an aircraft engine. Your uncanny sight can distinguish USML (United States Munitions List)  classified parts from commercial parts.  Let’s say you see a USML nut and bolt in there, […]

Posted on July 5th, 2007 by keeton
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The UK Ministry of Defence has brokered a bilateral agreement with its US State Department that would relax technology transfer restrictions that threatened London’s continued participation in the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project. Read about it in Flight International USA

Posted on June 29th, 2007 by keeton
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   from ExportLawBlog.com The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (”DDTC”) announced today that it was amending section 126.1 of the ITAR to reflect a partial lifting of the arms embargo against Somalia. These amendments are being adopted to implement revisions made to the Somalia arms embargo by U.N. Security Council Resolution 1744 adopted on February […]

Posted on May 16th, 2007 by keeton
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The Bureau of Industry and Security (”BIS”) recently released a settlement agreement in which Robert Abreu, the Senior Director of Strategic Sales for Supermicro Computers, agreed to pay $60,000 to settle charges arising from illegal exports of computer motherboards to Iran. The motherboards were shipped by Supermicro and Abreu to a distributor in the UAE […]

Posted on April 26th, 2007 by keeton
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China’s Space Odyssey: What the Antisatellite Test Reveals About Decision-Making in Beijing Bates Gill and Martin KleiberFrom Foreign Affairs, May/June 2007 Summary: China’s recent antisatellite test, which the military conducted while leaving civilian authorities mostly in the dark, raises a disturbing question: Will Beijing’s stovepiped bureaucracies prevent China from becoming a reliable global partner? Read […]

Posted on April 26th, 2007 by keeton
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ExportLawBlog cautions the Reuters News interpretation of the new Export Enforcement Act of 2007. A good clarification. Read it here.

Posted on April 25th, 2007 by keeton
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Early Christmas.. here’s a PowerPoint presentation given by Nancy Meyer, Supervisory Defense Trade Anaylst from the US Department of State, at the series of International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) seminars in February and March 2006.  The presentation provides details on the administration of ITAR, and the responsibilities industry have in complying with it. Posted at the Australian Industry, Tourism and […]

Posted on April 25th, 2007 by keeton
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John Huddle, CEO and practicing attorney with The Global Law Group in Richmond and chairman of the Virginia-D.C. District Export Council (DEC) spoke to the Blue Ridge Business Journal on the ITT fine, reverse engineering,  and other export compliance issues. Read the article by Michelle Long here.  “In a nutshell,” Huddle says, “two problems are […]

Posted on April 25th, 2007 by keeton
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The White House today announced that it was sending to Congress the “Export Enforcement Act of 2007.” The proposed legislation would substantially increase penalties for violations of the Export Administration Regulations (”EAR”):The proposed Export Enforcement Act of 2007 . . . would increase maximum corporate penalties from $50,000 under the executive orders to either $5 […]

Posted on April 25th, 2007 by keeton
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ExportLawBlog has been diligently following a ITAR case in which the prosecution seems to be redefining what public domain is. Blogger Cliff Burns discusses more ITAR-thumping courtroom perplexiites from the Chai Mak case in California. Read it here. 

Posted on April 19th, 2007 by keeton
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