Today, April 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Final Rule restricting transfers of bulk sensitive personal data and U.S. government-related data becomes effective, implementing former President Biden’s Executive Order...more
4/8/2025
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Starting today, March 17, 2025, new U.S. regulations impose sweeping restrictions on the importation and sale of connected vehicles (CV) and related components with ties to China and Russia....more
3/17/2025
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On February 1, 2025, President Trump declared a national emergency based upon the threat posed by undocumented foreign workers and drugs entering the United States....more
2/5/2025
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On December 23, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued the anticipated list of designated military end users (MEU List) under Section §744.21 (MEU Rule) of the Export Administration...more
12/29/2020
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New U.S. Treasury rules expanding the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review foreign direct investment in the United States take effect on Feb. 13. Our summary of the new...more
2/12/2020
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The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) has added Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and 68 of its Chinese and global non-US affiliates (the Huawei Group) to the BIS Entity...more
5/23/2019
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President Donald J. Trump signed and issued an Executive Order (EO) on May 15, 2019, declaring a national emergency with respect to threats against U.S. information and communications technology or services (I&C Technologies)...more