Or so screamed the headline…
Say what? The Department of Defense wants to loosen export restrictions “that keep military technology out of the hands of U.S. Allies.” reports DefenseNews.com.
How odd. But a close reading of this article, from DefenseNews.com, reveals that this is an interpretation, or one man’s guess, if you will, as to why [...]

Posted on May 10th, 2007 by philip
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Here’s a nice little primer on the export controls of encryption from IBLS – Internet Business Law Services, “Internet Law – Other Legal Issues Regarding Cryptography and Encryption”
“The United States government is very concerned about the exportation of both encrypted messages and encryption capabilities through software. Government officials fear that the software and messages could [...]

Posted on May 10th, 2007 by philip
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Read ExportLawBlog’s take on this breaking story - “Rift Between DoD and DDTC Exposed!”
 CSIS Press Release:
WASHINGTON, May 8, 2007 – The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has been asked by the Department of Defense to conduct an independent study to examine current U.S. export control regulations in light of the U.S. national security requirement [...]

Posted on May 8th, 2007 by philip
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 OFAC’s monthly civil penalty reports includes trailers for sale or rent and other assorted violations.
The report is linked here.

Posted on May 8th, 2007 by philip
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A webinar  to be held on export licensing by the Bureau of Industry and Security will describe your item’s specific license requirements, the destination of your item, the parties involved in the transaction and the end-use of the item.
> Learn how to determine your license requirements based on the item.> Learn what ECCN means to you [...]

Posted on May 8th, 2007 by philip
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Here’s hopin’ you your Monday went well…While you slept …. .Indian missile technology advances – and US officials suspect recent launches may be from stolen technology. We reported on the Cirrus export bust recently. I predicted some political fallout –but I haven’t heard a peep about the implications. I think the
Paris Hilton crises [...]

Posted on May 7th, 2007 by philip
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From Canada.com
 Chinese Spys In Canada
MONTREAL - Bombardier wasn’t commenting Wednesday on a report that foreign technicians were caught stealing secrets at one of its
Montreal plants last year.
The newspaper report said that Chinese technicians were especially interested in computer files at one of the jet-assembly plants and that Bombardier tried to keep the incident under [...]

Posted on May 4th, 2007 by philip
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From the International Trade Law News website. Canada’s The Globe and Mail newspaper reported that the U.S. and Canada have reached an agreement on how to handle the recent controversy involving dual citizens who work on military projects in Canada - which are subject to the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). The paper reports [...]

Posted on May 3rd, 2007 by philip
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Sheesh! Not much happening in the Export Compliance world today, folks. Once again, I need to borrow the brow-sweat of  our comrades at ExportLawBlog, who offer a tray of ExportLaw.Blog hors devours:

Update on the Chi Mak case
Farming in
Cuba
Indian spy case
More bombs for
Israel

Read here, then weep.

Posted on May 1st, 2007 by philip
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In light of all the bickering and controversy about ITAR restrictions  barring foreign nationals in Canada from working on US military technology contracts - Americans cannot help but chuckle when Canada discovers Chinese spys among them…
“He quoted a CSIS official as saying that Chinese spies stole $1 billion worth of technological secrets every month.”
Read the story on TheStar.com 

Posted on April 30th, 2007 by philip
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