美国财政部和商务部近期分别发布经国会授权的报告，其中进一步披露了此前外界报道中拜登政府当前拟议的对外投资审查制度细节。媒体报道称，白宫将在较短时间内——或许就在几周内——签发一项行政命令，以建立该项新制度。拜登政府近期向国会提交的报告表明，该制度将由美国财政部实施并管理，重点针对以目前不受美国其他现有贸易管制措施管制的“先进技术”为对象的投资。然而，报告并未明确该制度的确切范围和性质，包括哪些投资者及哪些外国技术领域将受到影响....more
Congressionally-mandated reports recently issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of Commerce reinforce previously reported details of the outbound investment screening regime that the Biden...more
CFIUS Publishes 2018 Annual Report -
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a U.S. government interagency committee that conducts national security reviews of foreign investments, recently...more
Representative Jim Banks introduced a bill on 5 May 2020 to “place temporary restrictions on acquisitions [of U.S. companies] by the People’s Republic of China. . .” during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...more
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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the committee), a U.S. government interagency committee that conducts national security reviews of foreign investments, has released its annual report for...more
On 17 September 2019 the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced proposed regulations to "comprehensively implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA)."
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On 5 August 2019 the Trump administration issued Executive Order 13884 (the executive order) imposing sweeping sanctions against the government of Venezuela, including its agencies and instrumentalities as well as any...more