Export Compliance Daily is providing readers with some of the top stories for Oct. 7-11 in case they were missed.
Jaguar Imports of Orlando, Florida, will pay a $98,000 civil penalty to the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security as part a settlement with the agency over unlicensed exports to Colombia, Mexico and Canada, BIS said in an Oct. 9 notice. The company is said to have illegally exported pepper spray, stun guns, handcuffs and police batons to the countries between 2015 and 2017, BIS said. The items were classified on the Commerce Control List and valued at about $35,355, the agency said. As part of the settlements Jaguar Imports "shall not take any action or make or permit to be made any public statement, directly or indirectly, denying the allegations." If the company fails to comply with the agreement, Jaguar Imports may see its export privileges denied, the agency said. The BIS order is effective Oct. 9, it said.
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security added 28 entities to its Entity List for their involvement in human rights violations of China’s Uighur population, BIS said Oct. 7. The entities include Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region People’s Government Public Security Bureau, 18 of its subsidiaries and eight China-based technology and science companies, including Hikvision, a major supplier of video surveillance products. The announcement takes effect Oct. 9.
The Directorate of Defense Control’s Defense Export Control and Compliance System will be unavailable Sept. 28 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. EDT for system updates and maintenance, the DDTC said Sept. 25. Users will not be able to submit Advisory Opinion or Commodity Jurisdiction requests during the outage. DDTC said the time window for the maintenance may change. Questions or concerns should be directed to the DDTC Help Desk at (202) 663-2838 or dtradehelpdesk@state.gov.
Export Compliance Daily is providing readers with some of the top stories for Sept. 9-13 in case they were missed.
A U.S. website infrastructure company said it may have violated U.S. sanctions and export reporting requirements, according to its regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Cloudflare, based in California, told the SEC it voluntarily disclosed possible export and sanctions violations to the Bureau of Industry and Security and the Office of Foreign Assets Control this year. The violations included submitting “incorrect information” about hardware exports to Commerce and receiving payments from people and entities on OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals List.
Export Compliance Daily is providing readers with some of the top stories for Sept. 3-6 in case they were missed.
The Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security issued two sets of Frequently Asked Questions involving Huawei and the extension of its temporary general license, including information on what changes came with the extended license, which transactions are covered and more. But the agency did not say whether it planned to again renew the temporary general license when it expires Nov. 18. “Any decision to renew the Temporary General License will be made at the sole discretion of the U.S. Government,” BIS said.
The Commerce Department is aiming to publish its advance notice of proposed rulemaking for foundational technologies before the end of September, said Rich Ashooh, the assistant secretary for export administration. “That’s kind of the goal,” Ashooh said, speaking during a Sept. 5 Materials Technical Advisory Committee meeting. “It’s really important for us to get there.”
U.S. export controls are confusing, burdensome and often place U.S. companies at a disadvantage compared with foreign competitors, the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai said in an Aug. 29 report.