The Center for Strategic and International Studies this month published English translations of recently updated or proposed semiconductor-related export controls issued by the Netherlands and Japan. The new Dutch regulations (see 2501150057) “specify which types of equipment now require a license to be legally exported from the Netherlands, based on specific technology usage or performance thresholds,” CSIS said, while the Japanese document includes proposed rules for “tighter restrictions on chip testing and measurement equipment, computer-aided design software, materials, and semiconductors.”
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The Bureau of Industry and Security released a "preliminary" agenda for its update conference scheduled for next week. The agenda includes two plenary sessions, a panel on export enforcement, and breakout sessions covering various topics, including semiconductor export controls, "emerging technology and foreign technology analysis," end-use/end-user controls, AUKUS, export enforcement best practices, the Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services, a regulatory review, space controls, and the Defense Production Act. The agenda also includes a list of speakers, which includes senior officials from BIS, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, the State Department and the Pentagon as well as government officials from Japan, South Korea and the EU. BIS said the agenda is subject to change.
British and Japanese ministers last week discussed export controls on critical technologies, supply chain issues, the World Trade Organization and other trade topics during the second U.K.-Japan Strategic Economic Policy and Trade Dialogue.
Australia’s amended Defence Trade Controls Act, which introduces criminal penalties for violations of export controls over military and dual-use technologies, took effect March 1, Export Controls Australia Group said in an alert to members this month. The group issued a reminder that Australian exporters and other organizations are now subject to “stricter permit requirements”; expanded recordkeeping rules; increased compliance reporting requirements, including for voluntary disclosures; and “enhanced self-audit expectations to ensure ongoing regulatory adherence.”
Singapore authorities charged three men with fraud last week after linking them to alleged illegal exports of advanced chips made by American semiconductor firm Nvidia, Singapore-based broadcaster Channel News Asia reported Feb. 28. The three men allegedly “made false representations” last year that the Nvidia chips wouldn’t be transferred to someone other than the "authorised ultimate consignee of end users," the report said, which may have violated U.S. export controls. The charges came after Singapore trade official Tan See Leng told the country’s parliament on Feb. 18 that Singapore doesn’t “condone businesses deliberately using their association with the country to circumvent or violate export controls of other nations,” the report said.
Countries, especially within the EU, should try to minimize export control compliance and enforcement challenges posed by cloud computing services, researchers said in a report this month.
The Trump administration has ended a Biden administration policy requiring recipients of U.S. foreign military aid to provide written assurances that they will use those weapons in accordance with international humanitarian law, the Washington Post reported Feb. 24.
The Bureau of Industry and Security’s ongoing export control policy review is likely to result in an initial set of recommendations involving advanced technology exported to China, Akin Gump said last week.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has officially opened registration for its upcoming annual update conference to be held March 18-20. The conference is expected to feature sessions with BIS leadership and "key international representatives," and will include regulatory updates, profiles of recent export enforcement investigations, compliance guidance and presentations from the Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services. BIS hasn't yet released an agenda.
The Bureau of Industry and Security issued a correction this week to its January interim final rule that created new lists of trusted chip designers and service providers; imposed a broader, worldwide license requirement for chip foundries and packaging companies shipping certain advanced chips captured by Export Control Classification Number 3A090; and made other updates to its existing chip export controls (see 2501150040). The correction, effective Feb. 11, revises 3A090 to correct that ECCN's license requirement.