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California-based electronic design automation firm Cadence will pay more than $140 million in combined civil fines, criminal penalties and forfeitures after the U.S. said it violated export controls against China. The company pleaded guilty to illegally exporting EDA hardware, software and semiconductor design intellectual property technology to Chinese entities, including a university and company on the Entity List.
President Donald Trump said he's no longer giving Russia 50 days, until Sept. 2, to stop its war in Ukraine or face trade measures. He told reporters in Scotland on July 28, "I'm going to make a new deadline of about 10 or 12 days from today. There's no reason in waiting," he said. "We just don't see any progress being made."
The Trump administration is considering imposing a terrorist designation on the Gaza-based Popular Resistance Committees, a State Department official said July 23.
Reps. Laurel Lee, R-Fla., and August Pfluger, R-Texas, introduced a bill July 25 that would clarify that ship-to-ship transfers of liquefied natural gas to be used as marine fuel are not considered exports unless conducted in foreign waters.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control last week labeled Venezuela-based Cartel de los Soles a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. OFAC said the cartel is a criminal group headed by Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, adding it "provides material support" to groups the U.S. has labeled foreign terrorist organizations, including Tren de Aragua and the Sinaloa Cartel.
The Trump administration is still wrestling with how exactly to scope its replacement for the Biden-era AI diffusion rule, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has been ordered in recent months to avoid tough export controls on China as Washington tries to strike a trade deal with Beijing, the Financial Times reported July 28. The report comes after Trump administration officials said they planned to lift restrictions on Nvidia's H20 chip exports to China as part of an agreement that saw Beijing ease restrictions on rare earths (see 2507150013). The White House and BIS didn't respond to our requests for comment.
In separate letters to the Trump administration, more than 20 former national security officials along with five Senate Democrats urged the Commerce Department to reverse its decision to approve exports of Nvidia’s advanced AI chips to China.
Sens. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., introduced a bill July 23 that would require the State Department to analyze whether the U.S. should use export controls, sanctions or “other economic restrictions” to discourage other countries from buying Chinese military equipment.