On July 18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule (IFR) amending the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR) so that certain technology and software...more
7/23/2024
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On February 24, 2023, the Biden Administration, in coordination with leaders of the Group of Seven (G7), announced a new round of economic measures primarily targeting the Russian Federation on the one-year mark of Russia’s...more
3/2/2023
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On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law an omnibus government spending package, which includes explanatory statements regarding outbound investment initiatives. According to media reports and official statements...more
On December 15, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced that it is adding 36 primarily Chinese entities, including Chinese memory chip maker Yangtze Memory Technologies and...more
On September 15, 2022, President Biden signed an executive order (EO) that reaffirms longstanding U.S. open investment policy and elaborates and expands on the existing list of statutory factors that the Committee on Foreign...more
9/20/2022
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On March 22, 2022, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo signaled the Biden Administration’s willingness to agree to outbound investment screening legislation incorporated in the America COMPETES Act and also indicated...more
On February 4, 2022, the House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act of 2022, which is the House’s long-awaited counterpart to the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) that passed the Senate with...more
2/7/2022
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