Matt Silverman on Export Compliance
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On December 18, 2024, the American Active Anode Material Producers, an ad hoc trade association of domestic manufacturers, filed petitions with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission...more
On November 5, 2024, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued its first report under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) and released a statement on the access to data for law enforcement. Both documents were...more
As a follow up to our March 1 alert on Imported Products Containing an Aluminum Extrusion Part or Any Extruded Aluminum, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) has announced the preliminary antidumping dumping duties affecting...more
On April 24, 2024, a coalition of domestic solar module manufacturers filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD Petition) with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) and the...more
Introduction - On October 25, 2023, the American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA) filed petitions with the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), seeking...more
On October 4, 2023, the US Aluminum Extruders Coalition and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW) filed antidumping duty (AD)...more
Introduction - On October 4, 2023, domestic producers filed petitions with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), seeking antidumping (AD) duties on imports of aluminum...more
Summary - On August 23, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) published its final affirmative circumvention determinations for solar products exported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. Commerce’s...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) continues to send a strong and clear message to the exporting community – it wants businesses and universities to voluntarily disclose any significant...more
On Feb. 24, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a final rule amending the Commerce Control List (CCL) in part 774 of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to complete...more
On December 2, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) issued preliminary affirmative determinations of circumvention with respect to crystalline silicon photovoltaic (“CSPV”) cells and modules exported to the...more
On February 8, 2022, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added 33 Chinese entities to the agency’s Unverified List (UVL). The UVL does not fully prohibit transactions with the designated...more
On Sept. 20, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a new set of anti-dumping and countervailing duty regulations governing a multitude of administrative proceedings including: • Changes to new shipper reviews; •...more
The U.S. government recently took action in two cases against companies for exports to distributors that resold their products to prohibited parties. The products at issue in both cases are designated "EAR99," which is a...more
On August 17, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) made available for public inspection a final rule expanding restrictions on Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and its non-U.S. affiliates...more
Exporters and US importers of goods claiming Vietnamese origin face increasing risk. President Trump recently indicated his administration will pay close attention to goods exported from Vietnam, including those suspected of...more
Congressional appropriations serve as a potent tool to guide administrative actions in commerce and trade Before departing in the final days of 2019, Congress passed a bipartisan spending package amounting to US$1.4...more
The good news is that, for the most part, State resisted the temptation to do something just a little different in the ITAR regulation, so the joint Commerce-State solution works. The chart below provides a quick side-by-side...more
In a rule published and effective October 9, 2019, China’s key manufacturers of video surveillance products have been added to the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Entity List by an interagency End-User Review Committee...more
The Commerce Department issued great news for exporters and American workers last week. According to Commerce’s report, Jobs Supported by Export Destination 2015, American jobs supported by U.S. exports to current free trade...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a voluntary disclosure guidance for export violations. The guidance takes effect July 22 and its intent is to make Commerce’s enforcement more...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce (the “Department”) is required by statute to, upon request, conduct a review and establish an individual dumping or countervailing duty margin for an exporter or producer of subject merchandise...more
Today, June 20, 2016, the U.S. Department of Commerce (through its International Trade Administration or ITA office) published a notice of Final Results in the 2nd annual Administrative Review for the 2012 antidumping duty...more
However, the new transaction rules leave the embargo largely in effect. Early this week, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and...more