House lawmakers proposed two bills April 15 aimed at speeding up the processing of export licensing applications at the Bureau of Industry and Security and helping American businesses navigate increasingly complex U.S. export restrictions.
Kamo Kirakosyan, an Armenian national, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate U.S. export laws and illegally export goods to Russia without a license from the Bureau of Industry and Security, DOJ said April 15.
A U.S. bill that aims to harmonize U.S. and allies export restrictions on chipmaking equipment faces several practical hurdles, including whether the U.S. is able or willing to get allies to agree to impose those tighter restrictions, according to a new commentary from the Center for Strategic & International Studies.
The House Select Committee on China urged Congress April 16 to pass six export controls bills and other restrictive measures to help the U.S. maintain its AI edge over China.
The Bureau of Industry and Security this week fined Thales Defense & Security, a U.S. defense equipment manufacturer, $44,750 after BIS said the firm violated the Export Administration Regulations’ antiboycott provisions. Thales committed the antiboycott violations by certifying to a freight forwarder that its goods didn’t come from Israel.
The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) “strongly” supports the Trump administration’s proposal to nearly double funding for the Bureau of Industry and Security next year, ITI President and CEO Jason Oxman said April 15.
Liz Cannon, who left the Bureau of Industry and Security earlier this year after leading its Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services (see 2601230024), has joined Hogan Lovells' international trade and investment practice, the firm announced April 14. Cannon will advise clients on issues related to national security, technology and global trade.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee next week plans to consider a host of bills that aim to bolster American export restrictions to help the U.S. preserve its technological dominance over China, especially in AI.
The Bureau of Industry and Security fined a California company $1.7 million this week after it admitted to illegally exporting specialized brushes to Chinese semiconductor companies on the Entity List. BIS said Coastal PVA Technology -- which won’t have to pay the penalty as long as it complies with a settlement agreement -- had no export compliance program and didn’t realize it needed a license for the exports.
The Trump administration’s use of export controls as a bargaining chip in trade talks with China has “eroded” the credibility of those restrictions and made it harder for the U.S. to work with allies to impose multilateral controls, said analysts with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in a commentary published last week. It has also spurred an export control “arms race” with Beijing, they said, calling on the U.S. to work with China to develop joint standards for how new controls should be added.