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The pace of U.S. regulatory changes regarding Syria continues to increase. Building on our previous posts (“Syria-ous Changes for Middle East Business?” and “Unpacking the U-Turn: What the Syria Sanctions Repeal Really...more
On July 23, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order, “Promoting the Export of the American AI Technology Stack” (AI Export EO), which represents a significant evolution in U.S. policy related to AI. For businesses...more
The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has a strategic role in U.S. national security, foreign policy, and economic interest. ...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) published a final rule on August 28, easing export controls for Syria (the “BIS Rule”) under the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”). Effective...more
After a three month wait, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has finally caught up with the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in relaxing restrictions...more
Key Takeaways: The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) has issued a final rule significantly relaxing export controls on Syria under the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”), in line with Executive Order 14312, which...more
On September 2, 2025, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued its widely anticipated Final Rule “Relaxing Export Controls for Syria” (the “BIS Rule”) that substantially eases export...more
On August 28, 2025, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a rule relaxing certain restrictions on Syria under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). But unlike the much broader...more
Consistent with Executive Order 14312 and following OFAC’s rescission of economic sanctions on Syria on July 1, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has announced updates to the...more
On August 28th, 2025, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a final rule making changes to the Syria export control measures under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). The rule,...more
On August 28, 2025, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a final rule relaxing export controls on Syria in response to the June 30, 2025 Executive Order (EO) 14312 “Providing for the...more
President Trump signed into law a bill requiring the Secretary of Commerce to report annually on certain export license applications, related authorization requests and end-use checks to the House of Representatives’...more
President Donald Trump signed into law the Maintaining American Superiority by Improving Export Control Transparency Act (the Act) on August 19, 2025....more
The Daunting Task of Export Compliance and Sanctions with Senior Associate Attorney Megan Mohler and VP Marketing/NBD Bob Brewer Braumiller Law Group. Megan Mohler discusses the pitfalls that many exporters run into when...more
On July 28, various arms of the U.S. government announced concurrent export enforcement resolutions involving Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Cadence), a California-based software and technology firm. Cadence will pay over $140...more
What happens when a company tries to outsmart the system - and gets caught red-handed by the DOJ in a $140 million export control scheme tied to Chinese military supercomputers? In this episode, Michael dives into the DOJ’s...more
Criminals are not as smart as they think they are. There is nothing so unique that elevates a scheme into the ethereal world of brilliance. The schemes get to be “typical” and the means by which they are executed are often...more
On July 28, 2025, the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), announced parallel criminal and civil-administrative export...more
The award-winning Compliance into the Weeds is the only weekly podcast that takes a deep dive into a compliance-related topic, literally going into the weeds to explore a subject more fully. Looking for some hard-hitting...more
On July 28, the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division and the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) jointly announced resolutions of parallel criminal and administrative...more
On July 24, 2025 the European Commission voted to impose retaliatory tariffs of €93 billion on U.S. goods if a trade deal is not reached between the United States and European Union. The tariffs will be effective August 7,...more
The Trump Administration is aggressively pursuing export controls and sanctions enforcement. In two separate cases, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control and the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry...more
On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued a final order resolving administrative enforcement proceedings against Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Incorporated (“AOS”), a...more
President Trump continued his flurry of sanctions actions with the recent revocation of the Syrian sanctions program. On June 30, 2025, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order (“EO”) 14312 “Providing for the Revocation...more
Pursuant to a sweeping new executive order (EO) issued on June 30, 2025, the Trump administration has lifted virtually all U.S. sanctions targeting Syria, shuttered the Syria sanctions program administered by the Office of...more