During the past quarter century, the United Arab Emirates have enjoyed a unique position in the world: they, more than any other country, have helped illicit traders mask the true…
Export Controls & Sanctions
The Wisconsin Project conducts research and advocacy to support robust controls on strategic goods and enforcement of autonomous and international sanctions. Export controls and sanctions are powerful means of inhibiting the spread of technologies used to make weapons of mass destruction. Listed below is a selection of the Wisconsin Project’s work in these areas, including analysis of export control enforcement cases, Iran sanctions violations, and commentary on U.S. export control policy.
Theft of Nuclear Material: Reducing the Risk
An interview with William H. Tobey On January 14, 2009, the Wisconsin Project spoke with William H. Tobey, Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration,…
Comments on Foreign Policy-Based Export Control (specifically the Entity List)
Mr. Jeffrey Lynch Regulatory Policy Division Bureau of Industry and Security U.S. Department of Commerce 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Room 2705 Washington, DC 20230 RE: Comments on Foreign…
Testimony: Export Compliance: Ensuring Safety, Increasing Efficiency
Testimony of Arthur Shulman General Counsel, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Hearing on Export Compliance: Ensuring Safety, Increasing Efficiency Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation,…
U.S. Entity List – Annotated China Section
The Wisconsin Project presents below the China section of the current U.S. Entity List, annotated by the Wisconsin Project to increase its usefulness as a screening tool for exporters. (Learn…
U.S. Entity List
The Entity List was established in February 1997 to inform exporters and the general public about foreign entities whose activities impose a risk of diverting exported and reexported items into…
Iran Watch Roundtable: An Assessment of Europe’s Leadership in Confronting the Iranian Nuclear Challenge
Panelists: Philip Gordon Hans-Peter Hinrichson Danielle Pletka Simon Shercliff Terence Taylor Moderated by: The Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Introduction Since the autumn of 2003, when the scope of…
In China We Trust? Lowering U.S. Controls on Militarily Useful Exports to China
Executive Summary In mid-October, the U.S. Commerce Department began to implement a new program to reduce controls on the sale of militarily useful American products to China. For the first…
Comments on the U.S. Commerce Department’s Proposal Concerning the Entity List
U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security Regulatory Policy Division Room H2705 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20230 RE: Comments on Proposed Rule – Authorization…
U.S. Failure to Follow Through on Iran Sanctions is Baffling
World Politics Review May 31, 2007 Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported once again that Iran had defied U.N. Security Council demands to stop enriching uranium. And in…