Banana Company Guilty of Protection to Colombian Terrorists
Chiquita Brands International, Inc., Pleads Guilty to Making Payments to a Designated Terrorist Organization and Agrees To Pay a $25 Million Fine. Read about the whole rotten mess at the Bureau of Industry and Security website.

US backed Iraq Government Participates In Boycott of Israel
The US-backed Iraqi government is enforcing the Arab boycott of Israel with increasing frequency, The Jerusalem Post has learned, with the number of boycott-related incidents involving US firms operating in Iraq nearly quadrupling last year, according to official US statistics. Read the story on the Jerusalem Post website. 

UAE Moved From Naughty to Nice List

 (by Cliff Burns ExportLawBlog.com)According to an article by Guy Dinmore in today’s Financial Times, the UAE has escaped the ignominy of being listed on the Bureau of Industry and Security’s forthcoming list of countries “of diversionary concern.” When BIS issued an Advance Notice last month announcing its intent to fill in Country Group C of Supplement 1 to Part 740 with such countries of diversionary concern, we speculated that the UAE was BIS’s prime target. Read more at ExportLawBlog.com 

   

Posted on March 21st, 2007 by keeton
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