USTR’s actions target China’s vessel operators, Chinese-built ships, Chinese cargo-handling equipment, LNG export vessels, and vehicle carriers. Chinese-operated ships and Chinese-built ships owned by non-Chinese vessel...more
Section 301 investigation into China’s “acts, policies, and practices related to targeting the global semiconductor industry for dominance.” Potential results include tariffs on goods from China that contain foundational...more
President Trump’s Day 1 presidential memorandum directs a top-to-bottom review of U.S. trade and economic policy and requests that his Administration provide policy recommendations with respect to: the U.S. trade deficit and...more
1/28/2025
/ China ,
Export Controls ,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ,
National Security ,
Section 301 ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Relations ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
U.S. Treasury ,
USTR
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued a final rule limiting data transfers to China, Russia, and other designated “countries of concern.” The rule establishes a new national security program that bans specific types of...more
On September 30, 2024, China’s State Council issued the Regulations on the Export Control of Dual-use Items (the “Regulations”), which will take effect on December 1, 2024. This marks the first time the Chinese government has...more
China has been imposing temporary controls on some graphite items as a long-standing practice. Starting from December 1, 2023, China will impose formal export controls on the three highly sensitive graphite items that were...more
USTR announced that the actions arising from the Section 301 investigation of China’s Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and Innovation would continue in light of hundreds of...more
Financial Institutions Horizons is a snapshot of key legal topics and market trends across the globe, shaping the future of the financial institutions market.
When we conceived the Horizons series in 2018, the financial...more
12/16/2020
/ Biden Administration ,
China ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Cybersecurity ,
Financial Institutions ,
FinTech ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Investigations ,
Libor ,
Sustainable Business Practices ,
UK Brexit
On 19 September 2020, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) published the Provisions on the Unreliable Entity List (Order No.4 of 2020) (provisions), which immediately came into effect. It has been over one year since MOFCOM...more
On the evening of 30 June 2020, the Hong Kong Government gazetted the Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (NSL) with the new law taking...more
On June 28, 2010, the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC) reviewed the second draft of China's Export Control Law (the "Law"). Six months had passed since the Law was first reviewed by the NPC in...more
On 24 June 2020, the United States Department of Defense made public a list of Chinese companies operating in the U.S. that are associated with the Chinese military. ...more
On 27 May 2020 U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo certified to Congress that the State Department no longer considers Hong Kong to have significant autonomy from China and therefore "Hong Kong does not continue to warrant...more
On 31 March 2020 the China Ministry of Commerce, the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), and the General Administration of Customs (GAC) issued the Notice on the Orderly Exportation of Medical Supplies...more
On 28 April the U.S. Commerce Department, Bureau of Industry and Security published two final rules and a proposed rule amending the Export Administration Regulations that will further restrict and regulate transactions...more
A deeper dive into the president's FY2021 budget request for the U.S. Department of Commerce reveals new initiatives aimed at safeguarding technology.
- The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)...more
2/28/2020
/ 5G Network ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) ,
China ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Emerging Technologies ,
Export Controls ,
NIST ,
NTIA ,
Supply Chain ,
Telecommunications ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Commerce Department
With the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV, the "Coronavirus") spreads globally at alarming speed some countries have responded to the crisis by taking measures such as restricting or denying importation from China and requiring...more
2/18/2020
/ Air Cargo ,
Best Practices ,
China ,
Contract Terms ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Exports ,
Force Majeure Clause ,
Imports ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Ports ,
Public Health ,
Risk Management ,
Safety Standards ,
Shipping ,
Shipping Cargo ,
Trade Policy ,
Vessels ,
World Health Organization
On 15 January 2020, President Donald J. Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed a “Phase One” Agreement between the United States and China, a truce halting the escalating trade tensions between the two global trading...more
Two years after the release of the first draft of the Chinese Export Control Law (the Law) in 2017 (the 2017 Draft), on 28 December 2019, a revised draft was published on the website of the National People's Congress for...more
1/8/2020
/ China ,
De Minimus Quantity Exemption ,
Dual Use Goods ,
End-Users ,
Export Administration Regulations (EAR) ,
Export Controls ,
Exports ,
Licensing Rules ,
Military End Use ,
Military Goods ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Trade Policy ,
Use in Commerce
Recent actions by the U.S. Department of State underscore the Trump administration's efforts to use a "whole of government" approach to address perceived national security threats posed by China.
While these actions do not...more
On 7 October 2019 the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) expanded the Entity List, restricting certain transactions with 28 Chinese entities.
...more
10/16/2019
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) ,
China ,
Doing Business ,
ECCNs ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Educational Institutions ,
Entity List ,
Export Administration Regulations (EAR) ,
Export Controls ,
Exports ,
Foreign Entities ,
Human Rights ,
Research and Development ,
Surveillance ,
Universities
Consumer companies on both sides of the Pacific are feeling the impact of the U.S.-China trade war. Targeted by the retaliatory tariffs imposed by both governments and already feeling price pressure as consumer confidence has...more
9/10/2019
/ China ,
Economic Downturn ,
Exports ,
Imports ,
Requests for Exclusion ,
Section 301 ,
Supply Chain ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Relations ,
Trade Retaliation ,
Trade Wars ,
Trump Administration ,
US Trade Policies ,
USTR
The U.S.-China trade war's rhetoric and ramifications have affected its economies but also nations worldwide. The effects on Vietnam though, shine out. Rather than negatively impacting Vietnam, the Southeast Asian nation has...more
Following on the heels of U.S. trade negotiators’ return from China, on 1 August, President Trump abruptly announced via Twitter an “additional Tariff of 10 percent on the remaining 300 Billion Dollars of goods and products...more
8/14/2019
/ China ,
Currency Manipulation ,
Direct to Consumer Sales ,
Economic Downturn ,
Exports ,
Imports ,
Requests for Exclusion ,
Section 301 ,
Supply Chain ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Relations ,
Trade Retaliation ,
Trade Wars ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
U.S. Treasury ,
US Trade Policies ,
USTR
The ongoing U.S.—China trade conflict touches industries from agriculture to manufacturing and products from automobiles to seafood, with the U.S. and China imposing tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of goods.
In...more