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Export Control
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Inside Business Immigration
WEBINAR: Export Control Attestation – How to Navigate When Hiring an Employee Needing U.S. Immigration Sponsorship
When hiring employees, it is important to assess whether there is technology or technical data the employee may have access to or utilize that are subject to U.S. export control…
International Trade Law
UPDATE: Export Control Agencies Coordinated Response Target Russia for Prohibited Chemical Weapon Activities
By Jeffrey L. Snyder, Laurel Saito, Edward Goetz
In an update to our prior post published on March 8, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and State Department published additional actions against Russia in response to the…
Trade and Manufacturing Monitor
Recent OFAC Settlement Highlights Due Diligence Expectations When Selling to Intermediaries
By Kelley Drye
Last week, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced a settlement agreement with UniControl, Inc. (UniControl or "the company”) for shipping goods to European trading partners when UniControl knew…
White Collar Law & Investigations
Sanctions/Export Controls Trends in 2021
This is the second in our First 100 Days series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the early days of the Biden administration. Our previous entry…
International Trade Insights
BIS Implements New Burma Export Controls and Adds Four Entities to the Entity List
By Cortney Morgan, Grant Leach, Tony Busch
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued final rules amending the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) by implementing new export controls on Burma (Myanmar), and adding…
International Compliance Blog
Commerce Department Issues Significant New Export Controls in Response to Myanmar Coup
By Nicholas Turner, Ed Krauland, Meredith Rathbone, Wendy Wysong, Ali Burney, Peter Jeydel
On March 8, 2021, the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published amendments to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) imposing new export control restrictions on Myanmar (Burma)…
International Trade Law
UPDATE: President Biden Imposes Sanctions & Export Controls on Myanmar In Response to Military Coup
By Jeffrey L. Snyder, Chandler Leonard
In an update to our prior alert published last month, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has taken several additional actions further restricting Myanmar (Burma)’s access to items subject…
SmarTrade
United States Implements Multiple Sanctions and Export Restrictions on Russia
By Thompson Hine International Trade
On March 2, 2021, the Departments of Commerce, State and the Treasury imposed sanctions and export restrictions on numerous Russian officials and government entities in response to the Russian Federation’s…
International Trade Law
Export Control Agencies Coordinated Response Target Russia for Prohibited Chemical Weapon Activities
By Jeffrey L. Snyder, Chandler Leonard
On March 2, 2021, the Biden Administration announced the intelligence community’s finding that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) used a banned chemical nerve agent to poison Russian opposition leader, Aleksey…
Trade and Manufacturing Monitor
New Export Control Restrictions Imposed on Burma, Four Parties Added to Entity List
Today, the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) imposed additional export control restrictions on Myanmar (Burma) in response to the recent military coup in that country. BIS previewed the…