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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
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. Commerce Department and other regulatory agencies published regulations at a furious pace as the Biden administration came to a close this month. These new regulations appear to be primarily aimed at restricting...more
On January 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Export Enforcement published its 2024 Year in Review, spotlighting key accomplishments in protecting U.S. national security. In this...more
Recently, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued new guidance to exporters intended to further assist BIS in its efforts to crack down on third-party diversion to Russia. ...more
On July 18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule (IFR) amending the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR) so that certain technology and software...more
On June 20, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) for the first time banned a software and cybersecurity company using authority provided by June 2023’s “Protecting Americans’ Sensitive Data from...more
On November 6, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) held a public briefing to address industry questions concerning the latest export controls on advanced computing and semiconductor...more
1. BIS Releases Texts of New Chip Export Control Rules- Updating and expanding on rules issued last year, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released three rules on October 27 targeting...more
The new measures build on sweeping restrictions that the United States introduced in October 2022. On October 17, 2023 — just over a year after introducing extensive regulations aimed at restricting parties in China from...more
On 17 October 2023, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued two new Interim Final Rules (collectively, the Updated Rule) that significantly revise and expand controls under the US Export...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
On February 14, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added six Chinese entities to its Entity List for their contribution to components retrieved from the Chinese High Altitude Balloon...more
On December 15, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced that it is adding 36 primarily Chinese entities, including Chinese memory chip maker Yangtze Memory Technologies and...more
On October 28, 2022, on the eve of the mid-term elections, a bill was introduced in the House that, unless you are an export control/compliance nerd, most would not have given it any thought. This bill, H.R. 9241, called the...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued an interim final rule on Oct. 7, 2022, placing unilateral export controls on certain advanced computing items and semiconductor manufacturing...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
On September 9, 2022, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS or Commerce) published a rule, sought by tech and telecom companies, and industry organizations, authorizing the release of certain...more
End-of-Year Sanctions Target Chinese Supply Chains and AI, Quantum Computing, and Biotechnology - Several US executive branch agencies and the US Congress have adopted wide-ranging end-of-year sanctions, export control and...more
Last week, the U.S. Government imposed tough restrictions on U.S. transactions with specific companies in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that are involved in activities contrary to U.S. foreign policy and national...more