On November 12, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Export Enforcement published an updated version of Don’t Let This Happen to You!, a compendium of case examples highlighting BIS criminal and administrative enforcement efforts. The publication was last updated in July 2024.

The updated version includes new enforcement cases involving: the first Disruptive Technology Strike Force case to result in a stand-alone administrative penalty; a criminal case against an illicit Russian procurement network; a criminal case where export-controlled items were smuggled outside of the United States and used in an assassination plot; an administrative case against a semiconductor wafer manufacturing company for unauthorized shipments to a party on the Entity List; and violations of the antiboycott regulations. Exporters are encouraged to review the publication, which provides useful illustrations of the type of conduct that gets companies and universities in trouble.

BIS Export Enforcement protects and promotes U.S. national security by aggressively investigating violations of export control and antiboycott regulations and by partnering with industry and academia to facilitate compliance with those regulations.

BIS urges everyone to report suspected export control violations through the BIS Office of Export Enforcement online tip portal. You can also call the Enforcement Hotline at 1-800-424-2980 or email EELead@bis.doc.gov.

More information about the work of Export Enforcement to keep our country’s most sensitive items out of the world’s most dangerous hands can be found at https://www.bis.gov/enforcement.