All Things Investigations – Navigating Secondary Tariffs with Mike Huneke and Brent Carlson
FCPA Compliance Report: The Impact of Secondary Tariffs on Global Trade with Mike Huneke and Brent Carlson
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 14, 2025
Daily Compliance News: June 9, 2025, The Repugnant Edition
Compliance in the Former Soviet Central Asian Republics
Episode 330 – Halyna Senyk on Anti-Corruption Progress in Ukraine
FINCast Ep. 39 – State of Russia Sanctions Two Years After the Invasion
Season 2 Episode 4 - Russia Enforcement and the involvement of DOJ's Task Force KleptoCapture
The Justice Insiders Podcast: The Latest on Russia Sanctions and the Enhanced Enforcement Environment
Episode 271 -- Deep Dive into Microsoft's OFAC Settlement for $3 Million
The New Cold War: Risk, Sanctions, Compliance Episode 27: “The Yukos Case: 20 Years Later”
The New Cold War: Risk, Sanctions, Compliance Episode 26: “International Sports: Politics, Corruption, Doping and Compliance”
The New Cold War: Risk, Sanctions, Compliance Episode 25: “Can the U.S. Seize the Russian Central Bank’s Assets?”
The New Cold War: Risk, Sanctions, Compliance Episode 23: "Former FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe”
The New Cold War: Risk, Sanctions, Compliance Episode 20: "Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie"
The New Cold War: Risk, Sanctions, Compliance Episode 19: “Psychological Profiling, Crisis Management, and the New Cold War”
Compliance in Ukraine
FINCast Ep. 34 - A Storied Journey in the World of Financial Integrity: A Conversation with Stuart Levey
Putin's Oil Heist - Episode 5: Fighting From Afar
FCPA Compliance Report - Josh Fitzhugh on Trade Compliance Since the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
New security rules designed to protect the connected vehicle supply chain will take effect in March unless they are withdrawn. The U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published the final rule...more
The US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a Final Rule on January 16, 2025 that prohibits the import, sale, and manufacture of vehicles equipped with Vehicle Communication Systems (VCS)...more
On January 16, 2025, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published the Final Rule, prohibiting the import of “vehicle connectivity system” (VCS) hardware (including connected vehicles integrating that hardware) and the...more
On January 14, 2025, BIS released the final rule for Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain: Connected Vehicles (Connected Vehicle Rule). The Connected Vehicle Rule prohibits imports...more
On January 16, 2025, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a final rule prohibiting the sale or import into the United States of passenger vehicles containing certain hardware or...more
On January 14, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published the Final Rule addressing national security risks associated with connected vehicle technologies. The final rule, which...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued a final rule limiting data transfers to China, Russia, and other designated “countries of concern.” The rule establishes a new national security program that bans specific types of...more
On January 25, almost two years after Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine, the US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a final rule (the Rule) strengthening existing export controls relating...more
In the nearly eighteen months since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many companies have had to reanalyze their export control compliance procedures, particularly with respect to countries with adversarial or strained...more
The Bass, Berry & Sims international trade team is actively monitoring the situation in Russia and Ukraine and providing real-time advice to clients on managing the situation. This post summarizes new U.S. sanctions and...more
On 2 June 2022, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued two final rules, effective on the same day, that revised the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) pertaining to the U.S.’s...more
The U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) has expanded export controls relating to Russia. The final rule imposes license requirements for exports, reexports and transfers to/within Russia on several items with...more
Following a meeting of G7 leaders on May 8, 2022, the United States enacted additional sanctions and export control measures in response to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Among the changes: a prohibition on U.S. persons...more
As Ukraine-Russia peace talks continue, the U.S. government continues to bring the heat. Yesterday, the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), issued a Final Rule broadly expanding existing...more
On Sunday, the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced novel and sweeping sanctions on specific categories of services in order to cripple Russia’s wartime capabilities and sanctioned key...more
This UPDATED post summarizes the situation as of late evening on Thursday, March 3, concerning current U.S. sanctions and export restrictions related to Russia and Ukraine...more
On February 24th, as part of the broader response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - the White House announced strict export controls as part of the Biden Administration’s strategy to “squeeze Russia’s access to finance and...more
On June 29, 2020, the Commerce Department issued 32 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) concerning revision - effective as of the same date - to Part 744.21 of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). As we discussed in a...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
ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS – Global Compliance Overhaul for SAP as DOJ and SEC Investigate Payments Allegedly Related to South African Government Contracts – On October 26, 2017, German software company SAP SE...more
On November 7, 2014, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a final rule implementing controls on exports, re-exports and transfers of a variety of goods, software and technologies for...more