UPDATE:  Our webinar with Lexology to discuss the evolving anti-corruption, sanctions landscapes with respect to the US and Russia and resources for companies to strengthen compliance is set for May 16, 2019 from 9:30 to 10:30 am ET.…

Please mark your calendar for the upcoming three-day US export controls workshops sponsored by our International Trade Practice with EGADD and Rolls Royce. Trade Practitioner George Grammas will once again present on export controls topics and host workshops. For additional information about the workshops, please contact Brinley Salzmann and Karen Hayhoe.…

Please save-the-date for the upcoming symposium organized by the Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) that will cover a range of export control topics.…

Due to the Export Control Reform (ECR) that began nearly six years ago, the Department of States’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) has updated 18 of the 21 categories in the United States Munitions List (USML), and most of these categories had items transition to the Commerce Control List (CCL) of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by respective designated transition deadlines. In accordance with DDTC Guidance published October 13, 2015, any Technical Assistance Agreement (TAA) or Manufacturing License Agreement (MLA) submitted…

On March 14, 2019, the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the creation of a new list specifically sanctioning foreign financial institutions (FFIs).…

On March 4, 2019, the Trump Administration announced Turkey and India will be terminated from the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program, which allows developing countries to export goods to the US without paying duties.…

On March 1, 2019, the Department of State reviewed and maintained the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). …