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Export Control
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Global Trade Law Blog
Read the Directions Carefully Before Playing: State Department Releases Military Drone Export Guidance
By Reid Whitten
The United States has a responsibility, or so the State Department tells us, to ensure the sales and exports of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) are consistent with U.S. national security…
Global Regulatory Enforcement Law Blog
New Authorizations to Export Personal Communications Items and Services to Sudan
By Michael Grant, Leigh T. Hansson, Michael Lowell
On February 18, 2015 the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) and Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) published changes to the Export Administration Regulation (“EAR”)…
Focus on Regulation
Commerce Department Issues Guidance on Exports in the Cloud
By Brian Curran
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) confirmed that simply accessing from abroad software subject to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) that is stored on a server in…
Global Trade Law Blog
Military Electronics Export Reform: Let the Chips Fall Where They May
By J. Scott Maberry, Reid Whitten
Every time there is a new round of reforms under the President’s Export Control Reform initiative, we hear the same advice: Controls on certain items are eliminated or reduced (which…
Global Trade Law Blog
Drop Your Weapons: The United States Restricts Military Exports to Venezuela
The U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has amended the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to restrict exports to Venezuela of certain items intended for “a military…
Technology's Legal Edge
What happens in the cloud stays in the cloud: BIS reinforces export control insulation for cloud-based computing and processing
Written by Thomas M. DeButts The US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently released a redacted Advisory Opinion dated November 13, 2014 that confirms for cloud-based…
Inside Government Contracts
Commerce and State Departments Implement a Number of Changes to U.S. Export Controls Regulations
This week the U.S. State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) and the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) published a number of final rules that…
Global Trade Law Blog
ECR Episode XI: Rewriting the Guide to the Galaxy – Satellites Passed to Commerce Control
By Reid Whitten
Glancing through the fictional but fascinating Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Rsch. Ford Prefect; Pub. Megadodo Publications), one might recognize that the assertions therein are a bit confusing. Similarly, one…
Food Safety News
Iowa Beef Producer Charged With Falsifying Halal Shipments
By Dan Flynn
An alleged scheme to export beef falsely labeled as eligible for sale to customers in Indonesia and Malaysia has prompted a federal grand jury to indict an elderly Iowa businessman…
Global Trade Law Blog
ECR Episode IX: The Export Control Reform Turns One – What are Your Plans for the Big Celebration?
By Reid Whitten
The Year Mark Apparently, it is now fashionable among my peers to host elaborate parties in honor of the first birthdays of their children. I have attended a number of…