- The U.S. Department of Commerce has published a highly complex and novel interim final rule extending the controls of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) over foreign-made items in Huawei’s contract manufacturing...more
5/21/2020
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- On April 28, 2020, the Bureau of Industry and Security of the U.S. Department of Commerce announced changes to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) through three notices published on the Federal Register. The changes...more
4/30/2020
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- On March 31, 2020, DDTC published five new FAQs on activities that non-U.S. persons may engage in following the expiration of a Technical Assistance Agreement (TAA) or Manufacturing Licensing Agreement (MLA).
- The FAQs...more
• On January 6, 2020, DDTC published a new FAQ on Defense Services Performed by U.S. Persons Abroad, confirming that the ITAR regulate defense services performed by a U.S. person employed by a non-U.S. company outside of the...more
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On January 6, 2020, BIS published an interim final rule to add a new worldwide (minus Canada) unilateral export control on a type of geospatial imagery software specially designed for training Deep...more
1/7/2020
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Trump Administration
• On December 26, 2019, DDTC published an interim final rule that would allow, under certain conditions, encrypted technical data and software that is subject to the ITAR to be sent, shipped or stored outside the United...more
12/30/2019
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• On August 30, DDTC published a final rule that removes many of the radars used in civil automotive and unpiloted aerial vehicles from the USML.
• This continues the targeted removal of civil items from the military...more
9/5/2019
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