In fewer than three months, the Trump administration has upended decades of US trade policy and practice in the wake of the administration’s America First Trade Policy articulated in the January 20, 2025, Presidential...more
4/14/2025
/ Aluminum Sales ,
America First Trade Policy ,
Automotive Industry ,
Canada ,
China ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Foreign Trade Zones ,
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) ,
Imports ,
International Trade ,
Mexico ,
Retaliatory Tariffs ,
Steel Industry ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Relations ,
Trump Administration ,
US Trade Policies
On December 27, 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a final rule establishing a new national security program to prevent access to Americans’ bulk sensitive personal data and government-related data by China...more
On November 21, 2024, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) placed Gazprombank – Russia’s largest remaining non-designated bank – and more than 50 other Russian banks on its Specially...more
On October 28, 2024, the US Department of the Treasury issued final regulations governing certain outbound investments in the semiconductor, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors of the People’s Republic...more
11/7/2024
/ Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
China ,
Executive Orders ,
Foreign Investment ,
National Security ,
Outbound Transactions ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Semiconductors ,
Technology Sector ,
U.S. Treasury
The US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), which administers the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and regulates most exports from the United States, announced further updates to the process...more
Broadening its response to Russia’s one-year-old assault on Ukraine, the United States announced additional export control and sanctions measures, effective February 24, 2023.
These new measures expand restrictions on...more
3/7/2023
/ Belarus ,
Biden Administration ,
Blocked Person ,
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) ,
Commerce Control List ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Export Administration Regulations (EAR) ,
Export Controls ,
Financial Transactions ,
Foreign Policy ,
Foreign Trade Regulations ,
General Licenses ,
Iran ,
Military Conflict ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Russia ,
SDN List ,
Technology Sector ,
Ukraine
Earlier this week, following Russia’s aggressive incursion into Ukraine, we reported on the imposition of U.S. sanctions in response — a modest response that reserved the heavier sanctions that have been anticipated.
On...more
2/25/2022
/ Banking Sector ,
Belarus ,
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) ,
CAPTA List ,
Commerce Control List ,
Economic Sanctions ,
End-Users ,
Export Administration Regulations (EAR) ,
Export Controls ,
Financial Institutions ,
Foreign Direct Product Rule ,
General Licenses ,
Military End Use ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Prohibited Transactions ,
Russia ,
SDN List
In a well-received “spring cleaning,” the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS) has decluttered the thicket of regulations governing the export of encryption software and hardware. Among the...more