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On August 26, 2008, Forbes.com posted an article entitled "China Faces Obstacles In Nuclear Energy".  Go to the follow ing link for the full...

In July 2008, the U.K. Export Control Organisation updated its Guidance on Compliance Visits.  This is a useful document for Canadian export controls compliance officers and specialists because the Export and Import Controls...

On August 14, 2998, The Economist posted an article entitled "Patchy Blockade" relating to the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba and some of the U.S. enforcement actions.  I have reproduced the article in full below. ...

This article has appeared in the August 2008 edition of the Thomson Canada Limited publication GST & Commodity Tax.

MP-tly Put: Comply with Export Control Law or Suffer Consequences of Non-Compliance

In an economic slowdown,...

The Canadian Government is learning that it does not make economic sense to acquire U.S. origin defense goods.  In 2006, Canadian Government announced that it was purchasing three new fleets of aircraft, three new ships and...

I came across the following provision in a "Terms of Use" contract on a web-site relating to software:

"U.S. Export Controls

Software from this Website (”Software”) is further subject to United States export controls. No...

Donald Hatch entered into a plea agreement for export violations involving night vision equipment. Why question his intelligence? Well, first the company's website os reported to state that all shipments are made as gifts and are...

Any traveler to the United States should prepare to be without their laptop, cell phone, PDA, Blackberry, iPod, MP3, and other electronic equipment.  In addition, any traveler to the United States should make back up copies...

There are two recent clues that businesses that use satellites to map the earth's surface must have export controls registrations and licenses. The first clue is that Canada's Minister of Industry rejected the sale from MDA to...

As countries such as Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam continue their efforts to restrict Internet access to their citizens,...

Bloomberg.com reports that U.K Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. Secretary of States, Condoleza Rica are increasing the volume on talks of new economic and trade sanctions against Iran in response to the nuclear enrichment...

StarTribune.com has posted a great article by Hank Shea that summarizes a presentation he gave in June 2008 about export controls.  The article may be viewed at www.startribune.com/business/24536914.html.

Wondering what is going on in China? Take a look at english.gov.cn, the official government website, which posts most of its articles in English.

A major focus for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been employer sanctions. Any time ICE conducts a raid, it selects the company to "visit" based on reliable information which leads the agency to believe individuals...

On June 29, 2008, the Government of Canada announced that it will immediately put in place a series of measures to severely restrict Canada's relationship with the Government of Zimbabwe. The following is an initial series of...

The U.S federal court indictments of Rigel Optics (a former DeWitt company) and its president, Donald W. Hatch, have been indicted in federal court on 14 counts of  improperly importing night vision optical equipment from...