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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Companies should be prepared to conduct additional due diligence for any transactions involving entities in the countries enumerated in this rule.   In an interim rule published on, January 15, 2020, the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), introduced expansive changes to General Prohibition 7 of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by including new controls on military-intelligence end uses and users, making the already tricky process of conducting business with foreign entities that much more comp...

Avnet Asia Admits to Criminal Liability for the Conduct of Former Employees, and Agrees to Pay More Than $3.2 Million An indictment was unsealed this week charging Cheng Bo, also known as Joe Cheng, a 45-year-old national of the People’s Republic of China, with participating in a criminal conspiracy from 2012-2015 to violate U.S. export laws by shipping U.S. power amplifiers to China. Cheng’s former employer, Avnet Asia Pte. Ltd., a Singapore company and global distributor of electronic components and related software, agreed to pay a financial penalty to the United Sta...

The items involved were controlled for “Chemical and Biological Weapons reasons” and thus required a BIS license to be exported to overseas research institutions, which the University had failed to obtain.

California Man Sentenced for Illegally Exporting Cesium Atomic Clocks to Hong Kong Posted on Cesium atomic clocks are used in global positioning system solutions, network timing protocols, encryption programs and national defense and space applications BOSTON – A California man was sentenced on Wednesday, March 3, 2020 in federal court in Boston for illegally exporting cesium atomic clocks to Hong Kong. Alex Yun Cheong Yue, 69, of South El Monte, Calif., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani to time-served (one day) and three years of supervised release, a year of which...

A federal grand jury has indicted eight people in connection with a complex international drug trafficking operation that included registering aircraft to a fictional airport in Onalaska.