Hot Topics in International Trade - The Daunting Task of Export Compliance With Braumiller Law Group
Episode 381 -- Cadence Design Pays $140 Million to Settle Trade Violations
Compliance into the Weeds: A Deep Dive into Cadence Design Systems’ Export Control Violations
Episode 378 -- Update on Export Controls and Sanctions Enforcement
Episode 376 -- DOJ's Unicat Settlement and the Future Look of Trade Enforcement Actions
Everything Compliance: Episode 156, To Document or Not Edition
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Compliance into the Weeds: USRA Declination Case Study - Self-Disclosure Best Practices
Episode 364 -- Five Strategies to Mitigate a New Risk Environment
Episode 358 - Ethics and Compliance Trends for 2025: Is Your Company Prepared?
U.S. Introduces “Fair and Reciprocal Plan,” Marking Significant and Impactful Shift in Trade Policy
FCPA Compliance Report: Strategic ROI - Navigating Export Controls and Compliance
FCPA Compliance Report – Episode 732 – Understanding Anti-Boycott Compliance with Alexander Cotoia
Leaders in Law: The State of International Trade with Neena Shenai
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 18: Navigating U.S. Sanctions and Their Implications for Non-U.S. Individuals and Entities
Navigating U.S. Sanctions and Their Implications for Non-U.S. Individuals and Entities
Episode 328 -- Sanctions Enforcement Risks and Redlines
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: Boeing Pays $51 Million for ITAR Violations
Episode 315 - Boeing Pays $51 Million for ITAR Violations
Wiley's 10 Key Trade Developments: Evolution of Export Controls
Just look at the current landscape of how China has been innovating through various trade related sanctions, bans, and tariffs. Just like lions, tigers and bears, oh my! Of course, in this case the scarecrow was the only one...more
Congressional representatives and senators, principally Democrats, have criticized the Trump administration’s approval of advanced semiconductor exports to China, citing national security and legal issues as issued in three...more
To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more
Last week, the Justice Department announced that Cadence Design Systems Inc. (Cadence), a global electronic design automation (EDA) technology company based in San Jose, California, agreed to plead guilty to a conspiracy to...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Commerce recently announced a $140 million resolution of criminal and civil charges against Cadence Design Systems (Cadence) for admitted export control violations...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
DOJ’s initiation of its aggressive trade enforcement strategy is quickly unfolding — and the new strategy is a real and significant threat to all companies engaged in international trade. We are no longer in the era of FCPA...more
It comes as no surprise China has been a major focus point of the second Trump administration. One of the key reasons for this focus is the increasing national security concerns over technology. In particular, the smuggling...more
On July 23, 2025, the White House unveiled its “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan” (the “Plan”), a comprehensive roadmap outlining a series of policy goals and recommended policy actions intended “for near-term...more
The Trump administration released the AI Action Plan last week, unveiling a new roadmap to AI dominance and global leadership for the US. It highlights actions that remove regulatory barriers to prioritize developing AI...more
On July 23, 2025, the White House released “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” encompassing more than 90 federal policy actions and outlining the administration’s comprehensive and aggressive approach to securing US...more
On July 23, 2025, the White House unveiled “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” which provides for federal policy actions the Trump Administration intends to take related to Artificial Intelligence (AI). The...more
On Wednesday, July 23, President Trump released his long-anticipated artificial intelligence (AI) policy agenda, “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan” (“Action Plan”). The Action Plan follows a January executive...more
On July 16, 2026, the U.S. Department of Commerce launched new Section 232 investigations on imports of Chinese drones and polysilicon. Drones and polysilicon are both currently subject to additional tariffs of 55% and 80%,...more
The global trade of AI chips is undergoing significant changes due to evolving U.S. export control policies and the reactions of key Southeast Asian nations. Since the announced recission of the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule on...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
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which allocates over $1 billion toward advancing the federal government’s use of AI. The funding package reinforces the administration’s...more
On May 13, 2025, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a recission of the Biden administration’s January 15, 2025 Artificial Intelligence Diffusion Interim Final Rule (“AI Diffusion...more
If I heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times, China is the sourcing capital of the world. I’ve also repeated this statement at least 400+ times in many conversations over the years regarding global trade. China, it’s...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced on May 13, 2025, its plans to rescind the Artificial Intelligence Diffusion Framework (the Rule), the Biden-era regulation that imposed a...more
At the same time that it potentially reduced licensing requirements on advanced computing items to a smaller group of countries by notifying industry that it started the process to rescind the AI Diffusion Rule, the U.S....more
On May 12, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced the rescission of the previously issued Framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Diffusion Rule. The following day, May 13,...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a series of significant updates affecting export controls on advanced computing integrated circuits (ICs), artificial intelligence (AI)...more
The Trump administration recently announced its intent to scrap the so-called AI diffusion rule, a complex regulation the Biden administration published in January to govern the global export of AI technology and maintain US...more
Anyhow, on a possibly related note, on May 14, 2025, BIS announced that it will rescind the AI Diffusion Rule and that, until the time of the official recission, would not enforce the Biden-era regulation. Stop-Gap Stopped -...more