FCPA Compliance Report – Episode 732 – Understanding Anti-Boycott Compliance with Alexander Cotoia
ITAR for Facility Security Officers
ITAR for Government Contractors - New Developments for 2018
On October 23, 2024, the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls published proposed changes to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) affecting exports of spacecraft and launch vehicles and related activities. ...more
We may imagine that a space company begins with only a few screws and some sheet metal in a garage. But regardless of its origins, not long after that early phase, that same company is likely to have a global reach....more
The US Government just placed Australia and the United Kingdom (UK) in nearly the same position as Canada for dual-use exports under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and is poised to go even further with a proposed...more
The Announcement On Friday, October 7, 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released for public inspection (available ...) one hundred forty pages of regulations (which we’ll call “the Regulation” here) that...more
Today, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a final rule adding seven Chinese entities to the Entity List. The U.S. government determined these seven entities, primarily supporting...more
On February 8, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a Final Rule amending the Export Administration Regulations to add 33 Chinese parties, to the Unverified List (UVL)...more
Scope of the Proposed Regulation - The Regulation would apply where a third country interferes in the legitimate sovereign choices of the Union or a Member State, by applying or threatening to apply measures affecting...more
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is now following new rules on mandatory filings for certain foreign investments in critical technology companies. As a refresher, CFIUS is the US Government’s...more
The Situation: The U.S. Department of the Treasury ("Treasury Department") recently issued proposed regulations that will alter and in some cases expand the scope of critical technology foreign investments subject to...more
In a burst of activity, the US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued two final rules and one proposed rule. These rules, published in the Federal Register on April 28, 2020, made a series of...more
The Proposed Rule creates a procedure for DoD to release unclassified technical data subject to EAR and ITAR to “qualified contractors,” which are defined to mean qualified U.S. and Canadian contractors. The Proposed Rule...more
The Commerce and State Departments have issued long-awaited proposed regulations that provide data security standards for use in the transmission and storage of ITAR-controlled and EAR-controlled electronic data. If enacted...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently published a proposed rule enhancing controls on certain cybersecurity items under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Specifically, the...more
State and Commerce Departments Seek Input from Industry on Elements of Export Control Reform - In recent weeks, the State Department and the Commerce Department have published in the Federal Register several proposed...more
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) has issued a proposed regulation under the International Traffic In Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) that will have a significant impact on government contracts firms. Under the...more
On June 3, 2015, the U.S. Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) and the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published proposed rules amending the International Traffic...more