The Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned four people and six companies that helped procure U.S.-origin electronics components and other “sensitive” goods for an Iranian military firm, the agency said Nov. 10. OFAC said the network of people and companies helped ship the items to Iran Communication Industries, which produces military communications systems, electronic warfare items, missile launchers and other goods for Iran.
Jenner & Block hires for Native American Law Practice include as partners Keith Harper, the practice's chair and who has worked on communications and other issues; and Robert Harmala, who works on intellectual property, telecom, media, advertising and other issues and also is chair, Government Relations Practice ... Ford Motor promotes John Mellen to general counsel, effective Aug. 1, replacing Bradley Gayton, who moves to Coca-Cola senior vice president-general counsel Aug. 31.
Jenner & Block hires for Native American Law Practice include as partners Keith Harper, the practice's chair and who has worked on communications and other issues; and Robert Harmala, who works on intellectual property, telecom, media, advertising and other issues and also is chair, Government Relations Practice ... Ford Motor promotes John Mellen to general counsel, effective Aug. 1, replacing Bradley Gayton, who moves to Coca-Cola senior vice president-general counsel Aug. 31.
The Department of Justice charged a California electronics company, its president and an employee with trying to illegally export chemicals to a Chinese company on the U.S. Entity List. President Tao Jiang, employee Bohr Winn-Shih and the company, Broad Tech System Inc., ordered the chemicals from a Rhode Island company before trying to ship the items to China Electronics Technology Group Corporation 55th Research Institute (aka NEDI) (see 2006030032), the Justice Department said July 20. The shipment would have violated the Export Control Reform Act.
An Iranian businessman was sentenced to 46 months in prison for illegally exporting carbon fiber from the U.S. to Iran, the Justice Department said Nov. 14. Behzad Pourghannad worked with two others between 2008 and 2013 to export the carbon fiber to Iran from third countries using falsified documents and front companies, the agency said.
Los Angeles resident Yi-Chi Shih, former president of China-based Chengdu GaStone Technology Co. (CGTC), was found guilty of conspiring to illegally export semiconductor chips to China, violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, DOJ said Tuesday. Shih gained access to a “protected computer” of a U.S. company that makes monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), before exporting the chips, which are used by the U.S. military for missiles and fighter jets, it said. Shih accessed the company’s computer systems with a co-conspirator by posing as a domestic customer looking to buy custom-designed MMICs that would be used only in the U.S., DOJ said. Shih illegally exported the ICs, without a license from the Commerce Department, to CGTC, which was building a MMIC manufacturing company in China, said Justice. CGTC was added to Commerce’s entity list in 2014, for “illicit procurement of commodities and items for unauthorized military end use in China.” Shih faces a statutory maximum federal sentence of 219 years.
Los Angeles resident Yi-Chi Shih, former president of China-based Chengdu GaStone Technology Co. (CGTC), was found guilty of conspiring to illegally export semiconductor chips to China, violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, DOJ said Tuesday. Shih gained access to a “protected computer” of a U.S. company that makes monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), before exporting the chips, which are used by the U.S. military for missiles and fighter jets, it said. Shih accessed the company’s computer systems with a co-conspirator by posing as a domestic customer looking to buy custom-designed MMICs that would be used only in the U.S., DOJ said. Shih illegally exported the ICs, without a license from the Commerce Department, to CGTC, which was building a MMIC manufacturing company in China, said Justice. CGTC was added to Commerce’s entity list in 2014, for “illicit procurement of commodities and items for unauthorized military end use in China.” Shih faces a statutory maximum federal sentence of 219 years.
A Los Angeles resident was found guilty of conspiring to illegally export semiconductor chips to China, violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Department of Justice said in a July 2 press release. Yi-Chi Shih faces a maximum prison sentence of 219 years.
Tariff engineering is still a legitimate option in the wake of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s June 7 decision on Ford Transit vans, but the practice may be more uncertain in the increasingly frequent circumstances wherein “use” is deemed a consideration in tariff classification, said trade lawyers contacted after the decision was issued.
CBS' David Poltrack, chief research officer and president, CBS Vision, retiring June 30, focusing until then on strategic projects with Radha Subramanyam, executive vice president-chief research and analytics officer, CBS Television Network, taking on oversight of company’s research function, effective immediately; Armando Nunez moves up to president-CEO, CBS Global Distribution Group and chief content licensing officer-corporation, following Paul Franklin retirement as head-domestic syndication and Scott Koondel departure as chief content licensing officer for own production and distribution company.