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The Bureau of Industry and Security doesn't have a draft rule in place to increase export licensing requirements for Huawei despite rumors this year that new restrictions for the Chinese technology company were imminent, said Thea Kendler, BIS assistant secretary for export administration. Kendler also said the agency has seen a sharp decline in China-related license applications, is spending more time reviewing those applications and is prioritizing reviews of artificial intelligence items, quantum computing technology and biotechnology for new export controls.
The State Department needs to answer for media reports that it “held back” human rights sanctions and export controls on China following the U.S. discovery of a Chinese reconnaissance balloon in American airspace earlier this year (see 2302100072), said Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas. McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, cited a recent Reuters report that said the State Department was trying to “limit damage to the U.S.-China relationship” and pushed back on new trade restrictions.
Export Compliance Daily is providing readers with the top stories from last week in case you missed them. You can find any article by searching for the title or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference number.
A former Pentagon official expected to testify before Congress May 11 said U.S. officials for years have “refused” to fix failures in its export control system that allow China to acquire sensitive technologies. Stephen Coonen, who spent nearly 14 years in the Defense Technology Security Administration, including as its senior foreign affairs adviser for China, said he resigned from the agency in 2021 to protest the Bureau of Industry and Security’s “willful blindness” surrounding its export policies.
U.S. semiconductor company KLA “received clarification” from the U.S. government on matters surrounding chip export controls on China and can “now resume some shipments that we had previously excluded,” the company said as part of its latest earnings report released last week.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released its 2023 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers, highlighting the most significant foreign market issues U.S. exporters are facing. The report focuses on foreign import policies, technical barriers to trade, intellectual property protection, competition, and more.
Dutch chip company ASML may have violated export controls stemming from a data theft incident involving a now former employee, the company said in its 2022 annual report released this week. The semiconductor company also said it’s expecting the Netherlands to impose new export restrictions on advanced chip-related items to China but doesn’t expect the measures to take effect for “many months.”
The U.S. needs to “act quickly” to build a multilateral consensus on China export controls or risk other countries simply filling the vacuum left by the U.S. in China’s semiconductor market, two export control and national security policy experts said in a Dec. 30 piece for Foreign Affairs. Although U.S. officials have said they are confident an agreement with allies will soon be completed, the authors said it remains unclear whether the deal will create a “genuine, multilaterally controlled chokepoint” for advanced chip technologies.
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