BIS Adds 22 Entities to the Entity List

Denied & Restricted Parties, France, Iran, Lebanon, Pakistan, Sanctions, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria, Turkey, UAE, UK

On November 13, 2019 the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added 22 more entities to the current Entity List. BIS also removed three entities from the list in the same Federal Register Notice. BIS imposes a license requirement for all items subject to the EAR and...

BIS Release Guidance Related to Exports, Reexports and Transfers to Pakistan

BIS, Commerce Dept, Denied & Restricted Parties, EAR, Pakistan

Pakistan has a nuclear program and a missile program that are subject to end-use and end-user restrictions pursuant to Part 744 of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This guidance highlights: The supplemental licensing requirements applicable to exports,...

Antiboycott Violation Nets $238,000 Fine for Furnishing Prohibited Business Information

Antiboycott, Commerce Dept, EAR, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE, Yemen

By: Danielle McClellan Coty Middle East FZCO (UAE) has agreed to pay $238,000 to settle 70 violations of 15 CFR §760.2(d) – Furnishing Information about Business Relationships with Boycotted Countries or Blacklisted Persons. Coty Middle East FZCO is a foreign...

Pakistani National Extradited and Sentenced to 33 Months in Prison for Conspiracy to Export Gyroscopes to Pakistan

DDTC, Defense Trade Controls, Denied & Restricted Parties, Enforcement, Export License, Pakistan, State Dept, Violations & Fines

By: Danielle McClellan Syed Vaqar Ashraf (71) of Lahore, Pakistan (also known as Vaqar A. Jaffrey) was sentenced to 33 months in prison after being extradited from Belgium on July 31, 2015. According to court documents, in June 2012 Ashraf began asking a Tucson-based...

Screen Your Parties’ Addresses & Screen Before Shipments: Experienced and Sophisticated Company Fined $90,000 for One Export of EAR99 Item

BIS, Commerce Dept, Denied & Restricted Parties, Export License, Pakistan, Violations & Fines

By: Danielle McClellan Spectrolab is an experienced and sophisticated exporter, according to BIS’s Order related to the illegal export of a Large Area Pulsed Solar Simulator (EAR99).  You may be thinking, EAR99 items don’t need a license so how is there an illegal...

Fails! University of Massachusetts at Lowell Pays $100,000 for Shipments to Pakistani Missile Entity

BIS, Defense Trade Controls, Denied & Restricted Parties, Embargoes, Export License, Hardware, Information Technology, ITAR, Licensing, Nonproliferation & Nuclear, Pakistan, Terrorism, Violations & Fines

By: Brooke Driver The University of Massachusetts at Lowell has chosen to settle with BIS for neglecting to obtain the necessary licenses required by Section 744.11 and Supplement No.4 to Part 744 of the Regulations for export to the Pakistan Space and Upper...