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New trade enforcement legislation introduced at start of new Congress

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 23 2009

On January 14, 2009 House Committee on Ways & Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Sander Levin (D-MI) introduced a bill to reform US international trade policy

President Bush calls on Congress to pass pending free trade agreements

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 7 2008

In his last State of the Union, President Bush highlighted the need for Congress to pass the Colombia, Panama and South Korea free trade agreements (FTAs

Recent enforcement actions and updates

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 7 2008

Zimmer Dental Inc. agreed to pay US$82,850 to settle allegations of violating the transaction regulations on Iran between March 2002 and May 2004

Recent ITAR revisions

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 7 2008

In December 2007 Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) amended the ITAR by adopting new Section 124.16 (Special Retransfer Authorizations for Unclassified Technical Data and Defense Services to Member States of NATO and the European Union, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Switzerland) and revising Sections 126.1 (Prohibited Exports and Sales to Certain Countries) and 127.12 (Voluntary Disclosures

Stepped-up trade regulation enforcement against non-US persons: a growing trend or a flash in the pan?

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 24 2009

Non-US citizens living and doing business outside the United States and business entities located and organized in other countries often find it difficult to understand how their wholly non-US sales and other commercial transactions could possibly be subject to US export controls and economic sanctions programs

Kellogg Brown & Root LLC (KBR LLC), Kellogg, Brown & Root, Inc. (KBR, Inc.) and Halliburton Company settle charges in Nigerian bribery scheme

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 24 2009

The DOJ and SEC have brought related enforcement actions against KBR LLC, KBR, Inc. and Halliburton in connection with a decade-long scheme to bribe government officials in Nigeria to obtain contracts concerning natural gas facilities

Two sentenced in conspiracy to export controlled aircraft parts to Iran

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 24 2009

Judge Patricia A. Seitz of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida sentenced Traian Bujduveanu to 35 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release for his role in a conspiracy to export military and dual-use aircraft parts to Iran

Air Shunt Instruments, Inc. agrees to settle charges of unauthorized export of defense articles and technical data

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 24 2009

Air Shunt Instruments, Inc. has entered into a consent agreement with the DDTC to settle charges relating to unauthorized exports of defense articles and technical data and misrepresentations and omissions of material facts on an export control document

Money, money who’s got the money?

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 24 2009

When the economic going gets tough, multinational companies might be tempted to cut costs by cutting back on steps needed to comply with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA

One-year review of the revised encryption regulations in practice

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 24 2009

Last year BIS, in an "interim rule," amended the rules governing the export and re-export of encryption items in the EAR