U.S. and multilateral sanctions and export controls imposed on Russia, Iran and North Korea have had only a limited effect due to China’s role in helping those countries evade the restrictions, the congressionally mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in a report released Nov. 14.
The EU needs to overhaul its approach to export controls so it can better respond to rising extraterritorial restrictions by the U.S. and China, a European Parliament member told a conference of EU and U.S. government and industry officials last week.
The European Commission on Nov. 14 officially published its updated dual-use export control regulation in the EU Journal. The updated controls, announced in September, aim to align the bloc with export control decisions made both within multilateral export control regimes and by nations outside those regimes (see 2509090009). The new updates include controls related to quantum technology, certain semiconductor manufacturing and testing equipment and materials, and more.
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 Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) asserted in a new report that controls on semiconductor sales to China should be kept to a minimum to ensure that U.S. chipmakers have enough revenue to develop new products, remain competitive internationally and sustain American jobs.
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., the ranking member of the House Select Committee on China, is asking Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to tell him whether allied governments were consulted before the White House announced that chip exports from Nexperia's China factory would resume, suggesting that the EU was caught flat-footed at the development. Nexperia makes semiconductors used in automobiles.
Although the U.S. has had “limited success” in coordinating foreign investment screening with the EU, partly due to a lack of consensus among the bloc’s member states, recent developments suggest that the U.S. should try again, the Atlantic Council said in a new report on China policy.
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Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., on Nov. 6 introduced as a stand-alone bill his proposal to require U.S. manufacturers of advanced AI chips to make their products available to American firms before selling them to U.S. arms embargoed countries. The measure was referred to the Senate Banking Committee. His proposal was included as an amendment to the Senate-passed FY 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, but it's unclear if it will make it into the final version amid opposition from the U.S. semiconductor industry (see 2509050056 and 2510240052).