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International Trade and Technology Transfer Reporter 2013 (Issue 1)

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 22 2013

The US Departments of State, Commerce and Defense have been reforming the process the US uses to control exports of defense articles. The process

International Trade and Technology Transfer Reporter IT3: 2012 Issue 2

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • November 29 2012

“Breakneck speed” might be an overstatement, but it cannot be denied that achieving broad export control reform as envisioned by the Obama Administration requires a massive undertaking involving many complex issues that it will take considerable time to work through and finally resolve

DDTC requests comment on proposed implementation plan for the transition of USML items to the CCL

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 11 2012

The US Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), has requested public comment on its proposed implementation plan for defense articles and services that will transition from the jurisdiction of the Department of State to the Department of Commerce

Recent US enforcement actions

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 30 2011

BAE Systems plc, a provider of private defense services headquartered in the UK and a foreign person under US law, entered into a consent agreement with the DDTC to settle 2,591 alleged violations of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and ITAR involving the unauthorized brokering by its European subsidiaries of defense articles and provision of defense services to foreign end-users in multiple countries between the 1990s and 2007

UK export control organisation to charge for export licences

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 30 2011

The UK export licensing body, the Export Control Organisation (ECO), has announced that it intends to introduce a charging regime for export licenses from April 6, 2012

EU and US economic sanctions against Libya and Syria continue to evolve

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • European Union, Libya, Syria, USA
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  • November 30 2011

As the political landscapes in both Libya and Syria continue to evolve, so too have the EU and US economic sanctions programs against those countries, but in opposite directions

New dual nationalthird-country national ITAR rule may not obviate conflicts with foreign employment and privacy laws as intended

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 30 2011

On August 15, 2011 a new “dual nationalthird-country national” rule took effect in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) under 22 CFR 126.18

US State Department proposes to limit definition of defense services; eliminates TAA requirement in certain circumstances

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 2 2011

In April, the US Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) published a proposed rule that has the effect of limiting the scope of activities that are considered a defense service and establishes new definitions of ''Organizational-Level Maintenance,'' ''Intermediate-Level Maintenance'' and ''Depot-Level Maintenance

Recent enforcement actions

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 2 2011

Lian Yang of Woodinville, Washington, pleaded guilty to conspiring to unlawfully export defense articles under the US Munitions List (USML) in violation of the Arms Export Control Act

2009 FCPA enforcement actions

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 26 2010

2009 may be behind us, but the reverberations caused by the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) continue