OFAC and BIS rule changes reverse some – but not all – liberalized polices on travel and trade with Cuba; the Cuba Restricted List lengthens. Treasury Dept.’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced that the Cuban Assets Control Regulations will be...
Risky for Business: Trade Sanctions
by Peter Quinter, guest columnist It has been a year since President Obama issued Executive Order 13660, entitled “Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine,” and opened an economic front in the international dispute with Russia...
Reforms Ease US Export Controls, Constraint on Competitiveness
by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor Export controls have long bedeviled US business. Obviously, for national security purposes, some controls are needed. We don’t want our adversaries, or potential adversaries, to have easy access to items that could be used to attack the...
Lessons from Bootcamp
Notes on a crash course in creating Export Management & Compliance Programs by Peter A. Quinter & Melissa Groisman, guest columnists Last month, Peter Quinter, Chair of the Customs and International Trade Law Group at GrayRobinson, joined Jonathan Barnes,...
Export Enforcement in Focus
New names, new priorities at the Bureau of Industry and Security by Peter Quinter, guest columnist Earlier this spring, David Mills, the new Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), US Department of Commerce, and his Special...
Under Investigation?
Got a notice letter from the federal government? Get a lawyer. by Peter Quinter, guest columnist Every year, the numerous agencies of the US government send out letters to companies putting them on notice that the company is suspected of committing some serious...