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		<title>The Third Deadly Sin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A California man has been indicted in connection with his attempt to export radiation hardened, space qualified chips to the People&#8217;s Republic of China without an export license. The indictment, if true, tells an interesting tale. According to the indictment, which was unsealed on Monday, the defendant Philip Chaohui He owned and operated a company [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/3831</link>
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		<title>White House Blocks Government of Iran and All Iranian Banks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The White House issued an executive order today blocking all property of the Iranian government and all Iranian financial institutions. Prior to this action, the Iranian Transaction Regulations (&#8220;ITR&#8221;) required U.S. persons to reject transactions with these parties rather than to block them. Simultaneously with the executive order, the Office of Foreign Assets Control issued [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/3825</link>
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		<title>Russkies No Longer Bullish on Dual Use . . . Cows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, who would have thought that a Google news search on &#8220;dual use exports&#8221; would turn up a WaPo story on the export of bulls from Virginia to Russia? Or that the story would talk about &#8220;dual use cows&#8221;? I certainly did not, which is what mooo-ved me to write this post. According to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/3819</link>
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		<title>With Friends Like That . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABOVE: Sharif Univ. of Technology Seyed Mojtaba Atarodi, a professor at Tehran&#8217;s prestigious Sharif University of Technology was arrested on December 7, 2011, when he stepped off a plane in Los Angeles where he had arrived for a medical visit to his brother&#8217;s cardiologist. The criminal complaint against him is sealed and the arrest was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/3806</link>
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		<title>Bye Bye, TSRA?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the U.S. Treasury Department&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control (&#8220;OFAC&#8221;) added Iran&#8217;s Bank Tejerat to the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (the &#8220;SDN List&#8221;). This means that no U.S. person may engage in financial transactions with Bank Tejerat and all assets of Bank Tejerat that come into the possession or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/3793</link>
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		<title>Massachusetts Man Pleads Guilty to Illegal Export Charges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rudolf Cheung, who is the head of the Research &#038; Development department of Microwave Engineering Corporation in North Andover, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty on January 20, 2012, to charges that he violated the Arms Export Control Act in connection with unlicensed exports of military antennae to Singapore. A copy of the criminal information detailing the charges [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/3786</link>
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		<title>Would You Like a Side of Sanctions with Your Pad Thai?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABOVE: Nalinee Taveesin Any U.S. companies doing business with the Thai government are going to have to exercise some additional caution after Thailand&#8217;s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra appointed Nalinee Taveesin as PM&#8217;s Office Minister. Ms. Taveesin is on the SDN List maintained by the U.S. Department of Treasury&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control (&#8220;OFAC&#8221;). U.S. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/3779</link>
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		<title>Mystery Solved (Maybe)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a post back in December titled &#8220;Imaginary Numbers,&#8221; I noted that the list of commodity jurisdiction determinations by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls had some puzzling entries: Three entries on the list, two for a high mobility electron transistor (“HMET”) and one for a microwave monolithic integrated circuit (“MMIC”), indicate that the correct [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/3773</link>
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		<title>Twenty IED Jammers in a Jam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Law students always chuckle at forfeiture cases because they have the best names, such as United States v. 3,462 Cans of Tuna Fish or the like. It always seemed so unfair to those cans of tuna to have the entire juridical apparatus and force of the United States arrayed against them. Poor cans! So I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/3758</link>
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		<title>Understanding the Law You Enforce and Other Minor Details</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently it is not a job requirement at Immigration and Customs Enforcement to have to understand the laws that you are charged with enforcing, as this recent press release from ICE illustrates all too well. The press release announces the forfeiture of a Douglas AD-4N Skyraider and associated parts that were alleged to have been [...]]]></description>
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