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House of Representatives Considers Arms Export Controls Reform Bill

Posted on May 13, 2008
This evening the U.S. House of Representatives held 40 minutes of debate on H.R. 5916, the Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Reform Act of 2008. Following the debate, a vote on the bill was postponed until tomorrow. If enacted, H.R. 5916, which was introduced by House Foreign Affairs...

COAC Meeting Held in Washington, DC

Posted on May 12, 2008
The Department of Homeland Security's Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, commonly known as COAC, held its quarterly meeting last Friday in Washington, DC. The COAC meeting agenda included a number of trade facilitation topics and...

Libertarian Presidential Candidate Calls for Repeal of ITAR

Posted on May 12, 2008
The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) is now an issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. This past weekend, George Phillies, who is seeking to become the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate, issued a press release saying that the ITAR "is completely out of control" and...

OFAC Issues Third Biennial TSRA Licensing Report

Posted on May 12, 2008
Last week the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued its third Biennial Report of Licensing Activities Pursuant to the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 (TSRA) covering the period from October 2004 through September 2006...

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OFAC Issues Amendment to Burma General License 14 and New Burma General License Number 15

Posted on May 11, 2008
On Friday, OFAC issued an Amended Version of General License Number 14 issued under the Burmese Sanctions Regulations . This amended general license permits U.S. persons to make donations in support of not-for-profit humanitarian or religious activities in Burma (Myanmar), subject to certain...

Canadian Government to Hold Export Control Seminars

Posted on May 11, 2008
For those readers interested in Canadian export control issues, Canada's Controlled Goods directorate is organizing a series of domestic and export control seminars across Canada this year. These full-day seminars will review the role of Canadian industry in safeguarding strategic...

U.S. Executive Pleads Guilty in Connection With Bribes Paid to U.K. Ministry of Defence Official

Posted on May 09, 2008
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced yesterday that a former Pacific Consolidated Industries LP (PCI) executive pleaded guilty today to charges related to the bribery of a U.K. Ministry of Defence (UK-MOD) official in order to obtain lucrative equipment contracts with the U...

Answer Key for 2008 Customs Broker License Examination Released

Posted on May 09, 2008
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted the results of the April 7, 2008 Customs Broker License Examination. The examination and answer key are posted below: April 2008 ExaminationApril 2008 Answer KeyAccording to reports, the April 2008 examination had a pass rate of 20...

NASA to Loan Space Shuttle Main Landing Gear Tires For Educational Purposes - Subject to ITAR Requirements, Of Course

Posted on May 07, 2008
Here's a unique ITAR-related story: NASA has established a new artifact loan program to help museums and other organizations traditionally not associated with NASA to gain access to NASA artifacts. As part of this program, NASA has announced that it has a number of flown and non-flown space shuttle...

Treasury Department Issues General License to Speed the Flow of Aid to Burma

Posted on May 07, 2008
As a follow-up to yesterday's post about OFAC's issuance of a general license to assist relief efforts in Myanmar (Burma), the Treasury Department today issued a press release stating: The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), in consultation with the...

Indonesian Convicted of Trying to Export Rifle Scopes to Indonesia

Posted on May 07, 2008
The Associated Press reports that a federal jury in Madison, Wisconsin today convicted an Indonesian national of conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act for attempting to export rifles scopes to Indonesia without the proper State Department licenses...

OFAC Issues General License to Aid Relief Efforts in Burma

Posted on May 06, 2008
In order to support the humanitarian relief efforts in Burma(Myanmar) as a result of the devastation left by Cyclone Nargis, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today issued General License Number 14 under the Burmese Sanctions Regulations...

Latest Defense Export Licensing Statistics Show Decrease in Average License Processing Times

Posted on May 06, 2008
The State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) has released the license processing time statistics for April 2008: Cases Received: 7,728 Cases Closed: 7,438 Cases Open At End of Month: 3,720 Average Processing Time: 15 Days By contrast, in April 2007 DDTC received 6,290...

International Arms Dealer Victor Bout Indicted by U.S.

Posted on May 06, 2008
The Justice Department announced today the unsealing of an indictment against international arms dealer Viktor Bout, for, among other things, conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (the FARC), a designated foreign terrorist...

Commerce Department Finds Insufficient Evidence to Self-Initiate Antidumping Case on Apparel Imports From Vietnam

Posted on May 06, 2008
The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) announced today that, after reviewing the second six months of data from the monitoring program of apparel imports from Vietnam, there is insufficient evidence to warrant self-initiating an antidumping investigation...

BIS Imposes $31,500 Penalty on California Company For Violating Deemed Export Rule

Posted on May 05, 2008
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently imposed a $31,500 penalty on TFC Manufacturing Inc., a Lakewood, California-based aerospace fabrication facility, for violating the "deemed export" rule. According to the Settlement Agreement and Proposed Charging Letter, BIS...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Seizes Counterfeit AC/DC Adapters Bearing Counterfeit UL Labels

Posted on May 05, 2008
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers conducting outbound operations at the port of El Paso, Texas recently seized 2,000 AC/DC power adapters in an in-bond shipment from China to Mexico since the Underwriters Laboratories "UL" markings on the adapters were counterfeit...

Comments on Proposed Change to First-Sale Rule Posted

Posted on May 05, 2008
The comments submitted by the public on U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) proposed change to the "first-sale" rule have been posted on the Regulations.gov website. The controversial proposal generated a great deal of interest and CBP received more than 140 comments by importers, trade...

Kewill and Strasburger to Hold Roundtables for Export Compliance Professionals in Kansas City and St. Louis

Posted on May 04, 2008
Export compliance professionals in the Kansas City and St. Louis areas are invited to attend Export Compliance Roundtable breakfast programs on May 28 and 29, 2008. These programs are sponsored and presented by Kewill Trade & Logistics and Strasburger & Price, LLP...

May 8, 2008 NCITD Meeting to Feature Speakers on BIS Regulations, Encryption and H.R. 5828

Posted on May 04, 2008
The National Council on International Trade Development (www.ncitd.org) has announced that its next monthly international trade compliance meeting on May 8, 2008 in Washington, DC will feature the following speakers: Ms. Hillary Hess Director, Regulatory Policy Division Bureau of Industry and...

EPA Issues TSCA Import Compliance Checklist

Posted on April 28, 2008
U.S. companies that import chemicals covered by the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) may be interested to know that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in consultation with the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), has developed a new "TSCA Section 13 Import Compliance...

At Trade Show, China's Police Shop for the Latest Equipment

Posted on April 27, 2008
Saturday's New York Times reported on the China International Exhibition on Police Equipment that was sponsored by China's Ministry of Public Security and recently held in Beijing. The article describes the large number of U.S. companies exhibiting at the show and that "the trade show coincided...

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission to Hold Hearing on China's Proliferation Practices and Cyber and Space Warfare Capabilities

Posted on April 27, 2008
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission will hold a public hearing in Washington, DC on May 20, 2008 to address "China's Proliferation Practices and the Development of its Cyber and Space Warfare Capabilities'' The hearing will examine China's proliferation activities, China's...

Commerce Department Unveils "Colombia Tariff Ticker"

Posted on April 25, 2008
As part of the Bush Administration's efforts to convince Congress to pass the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, the Commerce Department today released the ?Colombia Tariff Ticker? which tracks the dollar value of tariffs since the signing of the U...

Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Export Licensing Reforms

Posted on April 25, 2008
A subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing on reforming export licensing agencies today which featured witnesses from the Departments of Commerce, State and Defense, the Government Accountability Office...

Bureau of Industry and Security Announces Commerce Control List Updates and Annual Review Process

Posted on April 24, 2008
The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has announced a series of updates to the Commerce Control List (CCL) as part of a systematic effort to update and refine the U.S. dual-use export control system. The changes to the CCL were published in the Federal...

OFAC Issues Quarterly TSRA Licensing Report

Posted on April 24, 2008
Today the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OAFC) issued its most recent quarterly report of export licenses related to agricultural commodities, medicine and medical devices to Iran and Sudan under the Trade Sanctions Reform and Enhancement Act of 200 (commonly known as...

SenatorsThreathen to Hold Up Sales of Defense Articles to Saudi Arabia and Other OPEC Nations

Posted on April 24, 2008
The AFP reports today: A group of US senators on Thursday threatened to block arms deals with OPEC member countries if they do not boost oil output to help bring down soaring gasoline prices. Senators Charles Schumer, Byron Dorgan, Bernie Sanders, Bob Casey, and Mary Landrieu issued their warning...

U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Antidumping Appeals

Posted on April 23, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday granted petitions for certiorari to consider two related cases involving the interpretation of U.S. antidumping law during the Court's term beginning in October 2008. It is very rare for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider trade-related cases and it is even more...

Customs Issues Marking Policy for Products From Kosovo and Announces Next COAC Meeting

Posted on April 23, 2008
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published two notices in today's Federal Register: The first notice advises importers that as a result of the U.S. recognizing the Republic of Kosovo as a sovereign and independent state, for purposes of country of origin marking merchandise produced in...

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