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Mara Lee

Mara Lee, Senior Editor, is a reporter for International Trade Today and its sister publications Export Compliance Daily and Trade Law Daily. She joined the Warren Communications News staff in early 2018, after covering health policy, Midwestern Congressional delegations, and the Connecticut economy, insurance and manufacturing sectors for the Hartford Courant, the nation’s oldest continuously published newspaper (established 1674). Before arriving in Washington D.C. to cover Congress in 2005, she worked in Ohio, where she witnessed fervent presidential campaigning every four years.

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OFAC Sticks to Original $402,000 Penalty for Exports to Iran
August 23, 2012 by Mike Feazel|Treasury Dept.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control said GR-Duratech Texas, Inc. is liable for a penalty of $402,000 for engaging in transactions related to goods for export, reexport, sale or supply to Iran and services of Iranian origin, and its facilitation of a foreign person's export of goods to Iran, according to a letter from OFAC Director Adam Szubin. GR-Duratech had said a penalty that large would put it out of business.

CBP Proposes Kimberley Process Amendments for Rough Diamond Imports/Exports
August 14, 2012 by Tim Warren|Customs

CBP sought comments on a proposed amendment to its regulations that would add recordkeeping requirements to U.S. exports of rough diamonds and include additional information on requirements for rough diamond import and export. CBP is proposing to require any U.S. persons exporting from the U.S. a shipment of rough diamonds to retain a copy of the Kimberley Process Certificate accompanying each shipment for at least five years from the date of export and make the copy available for examination at the request of CBP, the agency said in a notice in the Federal Register Aug. 15. Comments on the proposals are due Oct. 15.

OFAC Releases New Licenses Implementing Eased Burma Sanctions
August 9, 2012 by Mike Feazel|Treasury Dept.

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control is publishing General License No. 16 and General License No. 17 issued under the Burma sanctions program on July 11, 2012, it said in a Federal Register notice scheduled for Aug. 10. General License No. 16 authorizes the export or reexport of financial services to Burma, subject to limitations. No. 17 authorizes new investment in Burma, subject to limitations and requirements. The transactions authorized by this License No. 16 include the activities formerly authorized by License No. 14-C and License No. 15. The new licenses are to implement the government's recent decision to ease sanctions on Burma (see ITT's Online Archives 12071205).