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On Friday, July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) Public Law No: 119-21 (The OBBB Act). The OBBB Act would provide roughly $156 billion in funding for the Defense Department,...more
On June 6, 2025, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders aimed at significantly reshaping the future of drone policy in the United States. One focuses on protecting national airspace from malicious drone threats,...more
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, recently concluded a landmark tour of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) visiting Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This was his first official...more
On May 9, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) released an advanced notice soliciting public comments on an investigation into the national security impacts of imported commercial aircraft and jet engines, and parts for...more
Key Points - - In an August 2 press release, the US Commerce Department updated its list of aircraft that have flown into Russia or Belarus in apparent violation of Export Administration Regulations by adding the first 25...more
On Friday, March 18, 2022, in response to the continued escalation in Ukraine, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) identified both private and commercial aircraft that have flown to Russia...more
Key Points - - A recent Commerce Department Press Release clarifies that the Department's restrictions on aviation exports to Russia issued in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine apply to whole aircraft, and not just to as...more
Many aircraft are regularly operated in multiple jurisdictions and aircraft owners have multiple choices as to where they will register their aircraft. Once the pros and cons of each registry are fully considered, owners...more
On 24 February 2020 the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce published a final rule amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and imposing additional export licensing...more
On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (“NDAA 2020”), which includes numerous sanctions-related provisions. The law includes the previously introduced...more
• The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Securities (BIS) announced changes to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR)...more
In a June 4 announcement, the Trump administration further ratcheted up U.S. sanctions and export controls against Cuba by prohibiting group “people-to-people” travel to Cuba and the use of noncommercial aircraft and...more
In Short - The Situation: Over the past several months, North Korea has engaged in several activities, particularly relating to missile and nuclear testing, that violate several United Nations resolutions and that...more