• The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has added 50 entities to its Unverified List (UVL). Thirty-seven of the newly listed entities are in China. BIS also removed 10 entities from the list that had...more
• The Bureau of Industry and Security published a notice yesterday seeking public comments on how it should define and identify a wide variety of emerging technologies that are not now controlled for export, but should be...more
11/20/2018
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• ECRA became law on August 13, 2018. It is the permanent statutory authority for the EAR, which is administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s BIS. The new law codifies long-standing BIS policies and does not require...more
9/12/2018
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• DDTC and BIS have published concurrent NOIs requesting public comments on the controls over the export and reexport of explosives, personal protective equipment, and military and intelligence electronics. (By volume and...more
2/15/2018
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On February 2, 2017, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued Cyber-related General License (GL) 1, a general license that authorizes certain transactions with Russia’s Federal...more