The Bureau of Industry and Security's recent rules that expanded foreign direct product rule restrictions over chip equipment (see 2412020016) and set new foundry due diligence rules (see 2501150040) are already hurting U.S. companies, the U.S.-China Business Council said, including by incentivizing foreign firms to design U.S.-origin goods out of their chip supply chains.
A purported draft executive order to reorganize the State Department that served as the basis for a New York Times article is a "fake document,” an agency spokesperson said in an email April 21.
New export license requirements that the Trump administration recently imposed on chipmakers Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) may not be the last of such actions, Miller & Chevalier said in an alert April 21.
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) called on the Bureau of Industry and Security April 15 to “rethink” its "flawed" interim final rule on artificial intelligence diffusion, saying the computing chip-related export controls are so complicated and far-reaching that they will harm the long-term international competitiveness of the U.S. semiconductor industry.
Regular and broadly inclusive communication within a multinational company is key to having a successful export control program, two compliance experts said April 17 during a webinar hosted by professional services firm BDO.
The House Select Committee on China said in a new report that the Bureau of Industry and Security should receive additional funding to improve its export control capabilities amid a growing workload.
When imposing trade restrictions on China, the U.S. should do more analysis to better understand how Beijing might retaliate with export controls, a former State Department official said April 14.
The first few weeks of Undersecretary Jeffrey Kessler’s tenure at the Bureau of Industry and Security have been defined by industry uncertainty and skepticism toward career government and business officials, industry members and BIS staff said.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who introduced a bill in January to prohibit AI technology exports to China (see 2502030031), said April 14 that he believes recent news about China’s AI activities might give his legislation a lift.
The leaders of the House Select Committee on China said April 16 that they have asked U.S.-based Nvidia whether and how the company’s chips powered the recent development of an advanced artificial intelligence model by Chinese startup DeepSeek despite U.S. export restrictions.