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U.S. State Department reinstates Cuba Restricted List

The U.S. Department of State has formally republished the Cuba Restricted List, restoring prohibitions on direct financial transactions with numerous Cuban military, intelligence, and security-linked entities. This move...more

BIS seeks public comment on potential rule restricting the import and use of unmanned aircraft systems involving China, Russia and...

On January 3, 2025 the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security released an advanced notice of proposed rule-making seeking public input on the definition of “unmanned aircraft systems” and their...more

U.S. proposes revisions to “defense service” definition and related export controls

On July 29, 2024, the U.S. Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) issued a proposed rule to revise the definition of “defense service” and the scope of related controls under existing International...more

BIS and DDTC take steps to update U.S. export controls to support AUKUS

In mid-April, the U.S. Departments of Commerce and State took a series of related actions to support implementation of the Australia, UK, and U.S. Trilateral Security Partnership. On April 19, 2024, BIS issued an Interim...more

US intensifies export control restrictions on semiconductor and supercomputing activities

The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security issued two interim final rules to expand on the 7 October 2022 restrictions aimed at denying access to certain advanced semiconductors, semiconductor manufacturing...more

U.S. implements new export controls on toxins, plant pathogens and biological equipment

The United States Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security has issued regulations to amend the Export Administration Regulations to implement changes to controls of certain viruses, marine toxins, plant...more

China Entity List designations

On Friday, May 22, 2020, the US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced in two separate press releases that it would be adding a number of companies and governmental entities to the Entity...more

BIS Expands Foreign-Produced Direct Product Rule With Regard to Huawei

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security has announced an Interim Final Rule amending the Export Administration Regulation’s General Prohibition Three, the foreign-produced direct product rule....more

U.S. Department of Commerce imposes significant new export control restrictions on China, Russia, and Venezuela

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

BIS publishes rules regarding CIV and APR license exceptions and military end use and military end user controls for China, Russia...

Three important regulatory developments were published yesterday in the Federal Register by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security...more

China, supply chain risk, and the race to 5G

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

BIS revises Country Group designations for Russia and Yemen, imposing additional licensing requirements and removing availability...

On 24 February 2020 the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce published a final rule amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and imposing additional export licensing...more

U.S. imposes strict export controls on certain artificial intelligence software for automating the analysis of geospatial imagery

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule on 6 January 2020 imposing licensing requirements on certain artificial intelligence software specially designed to...more

U.S. Commerce Department issues proposed rule to implement executive order on telecom supply chain

On 26 November 2019 the U.S. Department of Commerce issued a long-awaited proposed rule (or draft regulations) to implement Executive Order 13873, "Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply...more

New Huawei Entity List designations, TGL extension, exclusions, and certification changes

The U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is extending the temporary general license (TGL) for Huawei until 18 November 2019, and adding additional Huawei companies to the Entity List....more

Proposed additions of chemical families to Schedule 1 of Chemical Weapons Convention and BIS requests for comments from chemical,...

On 14 August 2019 the U.S. Department of Commerce published a proposed change to the list of "Schedule 1" chemicals in the "Annex on Chemicals" to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). ...more

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