The Commerce Department again renewed a temporary export denial order for Mahan Airways, saying that the Iranian airline continues to violate the order and the Export Administration Regulations. In its Oct. 31 notice, Commerce said Mahan, which has been on the banned list since 2008, has continued flights between Iran and Russia, China and Pakistan in violation of U.S. export controls. BIS extended the denial order for one year.
The U.S. has removed its arms embargo on Cambodia because of the country's "diligent pursuit of peace and security," the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls announced Oct. 27.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has informed U.S.-based Arrow Electronics that it will soon remove several of Arrow’s China-based affiliates from the Entity List, the electronics parts supplier said this week.
A new draft report issued this month from the nonprofit Law Reform Institute examines how frontier AI systems may soon be able to create instructions, designs and code subject to U.S. export controls and whether the U.S. will need to restrict this through new controls on AI developers.
The Bureau of Industry and Security recently updated its FAQs on the export control seminars that it holds for businesses and organizations looking to comply with the Export Administration Regulations or obtain continuing legal education credits. The FAQs cover who should attend the seminars, how organizations can request a seminar, how to partner with BIS on a seminar, what topics are usually covered and more.
The U.S. should impose new chip-related export controls on China in response to Beijing’s new rules last week that will restrict overseas exports if they contain certain levels of Chinese-origin material (see 2510090021), a former senior U.S. national security official said.
Exporters shouldn’t assume that the AUKUS initiative between Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. will continue in its current form, even though the Trump administration has made mostly positive comments about the agreement, said Charles Edel, the Australia chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The Bureau of Industry and Security added 29 entities to the Entity List, including three addresses, for either helping to illegally supply U.S.-origin items to Iran or for their ties to Iranian procurement networks, BIS said in a final rule released and effective Oct. 8. BIS said the entities supplied or diverted aircraft parts, drone components, electronic items and other products to Iran, including to Iranian companies already on the Entity List or the Treasury Department’s Specially Designated Nationals List.
The Bureau of Industry and Security is adding 26 entities to the Entity List for illegally supplying aircraft parts, drone components, electronic items and other products to Iran, and the agency is adding three addresses to the list for links to an Iranian procurement network. Nineteen of the new entries are based in China, nine are in Turkey and one is in the United Arab Emirates, BIS said in a final rule released and effective Oct. 8. They will be subject to license requirements for all items subject to the Export Administration Regulations, and licenses will be reviewed under a presumption of denial.
Exporters shouldn't expect a grace period from enforcement under the Bureau of Industry and Security's new 50% rule, but the agency likely is first looking for intentional violators as opposed to exporters who made good-faith efforts to comply, industry lawyers and advisers said in interviews.