Although companies must typically submit voluntary self-disclosures directly to DOJ in order to receive penalty mitigation credit with the agency for a potential trade or sanctions violation, that doesn’t mean DOJ will never take into account a disclosure to another agency, said Alamdar Hamdani, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas.
Nvidia reportedly hasn't agreed to the Trump administration's security conditions for sales of its H200 exports to China, delaying license application approvals for sales to China's ByteDance.
The U.S. is considering imposing sanctions under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act in response to Algeria’s reported purchase of Russian fighter jets, a State Department official said Feb. 3.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a new general license this week to authorize the sale to Venezuela of U.S.-origin diluents, a fuel needed to make exportable crude oil.
Madison Hardimon has left his position as the legislative affairs director for the Bureau of Industry and Security to become the chief of staff for Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, he announced on LinkedIn last week. Hardimon first joined BIS in May after working as a House staffer for multiple years. A BIS spokesperson didn't immediately respond to a request for comment about whether the agency has filled Hardimon's role.
National security justified the Commerce Department’s decision to withhold much of its final proposal to place importer Yangtze Memory Technologies Company on the Entity List, the U.S. said again in a supplemental briefing filed Feb. 2 (Husch Blackwell v. Department of Commerce, D.D.C. # 1:24-02733).
The Bureau of Industry and Security is officially removing Cambodia from the Export Administration Regulations’ list of countries subject to an arms embargo, about two months after the State Department made a similar change.
Nathan Swinton, former chief counsel at the Bureau of Industry and Security, has joined internet technology company Cloudflare as associate general counsel and director of regulatory strategy, he announced this week. Swinton left BIS in June, according to his LinkedIn page.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has effectively shut down its technical advisory committees without telling most members, quietly ending its involvement in most of the joint industry-government groups that it has used for years to solicit expert feedback on export controls, Export Compliance Daily has learned.
House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar, R-Mich., urged the Commerce Department to ensure that any H200 AI chips that Nvidia is allowed to sell to China are not used to modernize China’s military.