The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has redesigned its Defense Export Control and Compliance System (DECCS) industry user homepage.

The vast expansion of export controls to counter American adversaries has eclipsed the government's ability to enforce them, according to a new report from the Council on Foreign Relations.

Center for Strategic and International Studies adviser Bill Reinsch, who served as undersecretary of commerce for export administration for seven years earlier in his career, said he thinks loosening up export controls on AI-capable chips is the right move, but he regrets that exports to the United Arab Emirates are the prominent example.

The recent export controls suspended by the Chinese government created a new framework for export controls that could quickly be reinstated should tensions between the U.S. and China flare up again, according to compliance experts.

China has added the U.S., Canada and Mexico to its list of countries requiring export licenses for certain precursor chemicals, its Ministry of Commerce announced Nov. 10, according to an unofficial translation.

The Bureau of Industry and Security again renewed a temporary denial order on Russia's Rossiya Airlines, saying the company has continued to illegally operate planes in violation of U.S. export controls, including on flights between Russia and Uzebekistan and Russia and Egypt, as well as domestically within Russia. The agency renewed the denial order for one year from Nov. 4. BIS first suspended the export privileges of the airline in May 2022 (see 2205200008) and has renewed the order multiple times. The order blocks Rossiya from participating in transactions subject to the Export Administration Regulations.

China suspended export controls for a year on certain key critical minerals and other dual-use items that were banned from being shipped to the U.S. for military uses, China's Ministry of Commerce said in a Nov. 9 press release. The ban on exports of gallium, germanium, antimony and “superhard materials” was originally instated in December 2024 (see 2412030022). The move comes amid a thaw in the trade conflict between the U.S. and China after talks between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping at the end of last month (see 2510300003).

The Chinese government announced that it's delaying its export licensing system that it announced in October, which affected rare earth processing equipment, extraterritorial use of its rare earths, and battery manufacturing equipment.

Although China agreed to temporarily suspend its sweeping rare earth export restrictions, the threat of those controls returning appears likely, said Jude Blanchette, director of the Rand China Research Center.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. doesn't plan to allow exports of Nvidia's Blackwell advanced AI chip to China.