Trade lawmakers in the European Parliament reached a common position on legislation to implement the EU‑U.S. trade deal, clearing the way for a Feb. 24 committee vote and a likely March plenary, according to Feb. 10 social media posts by trade committee chair Bernd Lange.
The Government Accountability Office published a restricted report Feb. 10 titled, “Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.: Actions Needed to Better Address National Security Risks Related to Nascent Technologies.” The report isn't being publicly released because it contains "controlled unclassified information," the GAO said. A public version of the document is not planned "at this time," a GAO spokesperson said.
Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, introduced a bill Feb. 11 that would prohibit U.S. universities from selling the intellectual property rights of their research to the governments of what he called “hostile” countries, including China, Russia and Iran.
Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Senate Intelligence Committee vice chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., asked the Commerce Department Feb. 11 to explain why the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services (ICTS) has been experiencing the loss of key personnel and delays in several important efforts.
A bipartisan group of six House members on Feb. 11 introduced a companion to a Senate bill that would impose additional sanctions targeting Russia’s oil revenue.
Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Feb. 11 that recent comments by Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, underscore the need for legislation to restrict exports of advanced AI chips to China.
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The U.K. government is declining to move forward with several recommendations that lawmakers argued would bolster economic security, including a new fast-track process for trusted foreign investors and the creation of a new Office of Economic Security, Parliament’s Business and Trade Committee said this month. The committee also said the government didn’t adequately address its criticisms of the U.K.’s “inconsistent” export control and sanctions enforcement, although the government did say it’s considering developing an “anti-coercion instrument” that it could use to impose countermeasures against unfair foreign trade barriers.
Eddy Aparicio, a senior trade and industry analyst with the Bureau of Industry and Security, is starting a new role as an acting division director at BIS, he announced Feb. 10 on LinkedIn. Since 2020, Aparicio has served as the BIS liaison to the Treasury Department, where he has provided export control input on the activities of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.
Reps. Chris Smith, R-N.J., who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, and Riley Moore, R-W.Va., introduced a bill Feb. 10 that calls for the State Department to determine whether certain Fulani-ethnic militias in Nigeria qualify as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.