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On July 22, the US Senate passed the Maintaining American Superiority by Improving Export Control Transparency Act (the Bill), sending it to President Trump for his signature....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
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
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
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 “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
The global trade of advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) chips is currently undergoing significant transformation due to evolving U.S. export control policies and the corresponding responses from international partners. On...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 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
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC or Commission) Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureau) and Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) have published a Public Notice seeking input on adding certain...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
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
On May 13, 2025, the Department of Commerce formally signaled its intention to rescind the Biden Administration’s Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion (AI Diffusion Rule) two days before the January 2025 Interim...more
In a highly anticipated move, the Trump administration has announced that it will rescind and replace the AI Diffusion Rule issued by the Commerce Department during the last weeks of the Biden administration. Set to take...more
Recent actions by the Singapore and US governments following DeepSeek’s alleged use of restricted artificial intelligence (AI) chips signal more robust enforcement of export controls. Not only is Singapore stepping up its...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 April 16, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) published a report on the Chinese company DeepSeek’s AI model with findings from the committee’s investigation into DeepSeek. The report...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. Originally...more
The second Trump administration has come flying out of the starting blocks on international trade policy actions—imposing and rescinding, shaping and reshaping tariffs, sanctions, and export controls. The executive orders and...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
President Trump’s first months in office have been busy, but, in the export control world, we have been grateful for a brief respite from the mind-bending, hundreds-of-pages-long, industry-changing rules that the US...more