Last week OFAC, pursuant to Executive Order 13902, placed Karnakis and Karnakis, a law firm operating in Greece and Panama, on the SDN list for “operating in the petroleum and petrochemical sectors of the Iranian economy.” The agency justified this…
Language in the recently proposed ITAR amendments may reveal one of those worst nightmare scenarios that have been frightening people for years (and not just at Halloween). You buy a 3A611.x part from a vendor, you put it in a…
Without question, the definition of “Defense Services” has been one of the most controversial provisions of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. Going back to 2011, DDTC first proposed revising the definition of “defense services” and infamously said this: [I]t…
Pegasus Worldwide Logistics, a small company with about a dozen employees, agreed to pay a penalty of $175,015 for arranging a shipment for a U.S. customer of a sugar-packet filling machine valued at $5,950 from a Chinese firm on the…
Homeland Security Investigations announced today that the U.S. government had seized at Port Everglades and Port Houston 615,000 gallons of biodiesel fuel worth $2.8 million and destined for Cuba. At a press conference on Wednesday, a U.S. official justified the…