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On June 30, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order (EO) that, effective July 1, revokes the U.S. sanctions program on Syria, and calls for the removal of the Syrian Sanctions Regulations from the Code of Federal...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security has issued the final rule that will determine how its Information and Communications Technology and Services regulations will work going forward....more
On March 25, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a significant expansion of its Entity List restrictions, adding 80 entities from China, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa,...more
The U.S. Department of State has formally republished the Cuba Restricted List, restoring prohibitions on direct financial transactions with numerous Cuban military, intelligence, and security-linked entities. This move...more
Through a presidential proclamation, the Trump Administration on Feb. 10, 2025, announced the reinstatement of a 25 percent tariff on all steel imports and an increase in aluminum tariffs from 10 percent to 25 percent. The...more
Just hours after his inauguration on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued a memorandum ordering federal agencies to conduct a comprehensive review of US trade policy, with particular attention devoted to US–China...more
Good Afternoon! Forget the past two weeks, it’s been a busy week in the business of space. Since President Trump’s inauguration, Washington has been busy shuffling the deck on U.S. space leadership and priorities. Outside...more
On January 15, 2025, the US Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule (IFR) that imposes new controls on advanced computing integrated circuits (Advanced ICs) and certain...more
On 10/9/24, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) within the Department of Commerce has issued guidance aimed at financial institutions (FIs), outlining best practices for adherence to the Export Administration...more
On December 2, 2024, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a final rule expanding and refining the scope of the Entity List (the “Entity List FR”), as well as an interim final rule building upon the China chip...more
On August 14, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued guidance to the U.S. academic community regarding compliance with export controls and to protect U.S. national security....more
On September 6, the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) in the U.S. Commerce Department issued an interim final rule (“IFR”) under the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) to add new export controls on semiconductor,...more
On July 25, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) published two (2) new rules in the Federal Register that significantly expand the scope of existing “U.S. Person” prohibitions...more
To curtail U.S. persons from supporting the efforts of adversarial regimes, such as China and Russia, in advancing their military and intelligence capabilities, the U.S. is proposing a significant expansion of export control...more
The proposed regulations would implement President Biden’s Executive Order that restricts certain outbound investments from the US. On June 21, 2024, the US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued a Notice of Proposed...more
On October 17, 2023, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) released two interim final rules (“IFRs”) that amended the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) to significantly expand export...more
On November 6, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) hosted a public briefing to address questions and further clarify its recently announced rules on October 17, 2023. The new measures...more
On October 17, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued new controls aimed at further slowing China’s development of advanced AI technologies. These new controls, published in two...more
The United States took two significant actions last week to cement its stance that protecting human rights around the globe is a central U.S. national security and foreign policy interest in export control policy and...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a final rule effective March 2, 2023, amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding 37 entities to the Entity List, including...more
On February 14, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry Security (BIS) amended the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) (15 C.F.R. §§ 730 et seq.) list (Entity List) by adding six China-based entities. The...more
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce announced this past week that it was adding more than three dozen companies to the Entity List effective immediately. This is the second round of...more
New Export Control Regulations Must Be Examined to Ensure Protection of International Research Collaborations - U.S. government actions to enhance and protect U.S. technological innovation have been regularly featured in...more
On October 7, 2022, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a new policy that would continually escalate restrictions on entities that fail to comply with BIS’s end-use verification checks, regardless of whether...more
Over the last several weeks, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has telegraphed sweeping, new controls on U.S. exports to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) pertaining to tools and technologies that support advanced...more