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Byline: Eva Dou Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) have issued a populist appeal to Commerce Secretary-designate Howard Lutnick to toughen chip export controls against China, in response [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski, Jacqueline Alemany President Donald Trump met Friday with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, marking the first meeting between the president and the leader of a chip company at [...]

Byline: Eva Dou, Katrina Northrop, Lyric Li, Gerrit De Vynck In 2022, a team of AI engineers in southern China working for the parent company of DeepSeek proudly unveiled a [...]

Byline: Christian Shepherd, Katrina Northrop, Lyric Li With a burst of diplomatic and military moves, threats to restrict key exports and devastating cyberattacks on American networks, Beijing has in recent [...]

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada is not ruling out restricting energy exports to the United States as a possible countermeasure to president-elect Donald Trump's tariff threats, an idea [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- Barrick Gold Corp. says it will be forced to shut down its operations in Mali within a week if the military junta continues to [...]

The move was the latest escalation in the back and forth between Beijing and Washington over products considered vital to national security. China on Thursday singled out dozens of companies [...]

On Dec. 2, the United States announced a new round of export controls on advanced semiconductors to China, and more restrictions are expected soon. It was among the final pieces [...]

Beijing ordered companies around the world not to allow critical minerals mined in China to reach the U.S., while deepening its efforts to replace imports with domestic products. Alarm is [...]

Byline: Shannon Najmabadi, Gerrit De Vynck China has opened an investigation into chipmaker Nvidia over suspected violations of the country's anti-monopoly law, it announced Monday, ratcheting up its escalating fight [...]

U.S. stocks tiptoed to more records amid a mixed Tuesday of trading, tacking a touch more onto what's already been a stellar year so far. The S&P 500 edged up [...]

The move escalates supply chain warfare and comes a day after the Biden administration expanded curbs on the sale of advanced American technology to China. China said on Tuesday that [...]

In the last days of the Biden Administration, the United States imposed new, complex, export control restrictions on artificial intelligence (AI) technology, intended to ensure that AI development 'runs on [...]

On January 13, 2025, the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced new rules restricting the export of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips and certain closed AI [...]

The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has issued Public Notice No. 39/2024-25 on January 5, 2025, outlining updated procedures for exporting certified organic products. This notice supersedes Public Notice [...]

The European Commission has updated its Guidance (the Guidance) on the requirement in Article 12g of Council Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 for EU-based exporters to include a 'no re-export to [...]

On Dec. 18, the majority staff of the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) issued a report calling for the application of the 'high probability' standard in U.S. export [...]

Changing Export Regulations - In October, both the U.S. Department of Commerce and Department of State released long-awaited rulemakings to update export controls for spacecraft. The Department of Commerce rolled [...]

On December 2, 2024, the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released1 its third round of export controls primarily targeting China's attempts to create an 'independent and [...]

Today's Deep Dive is 1,840 words and a 12-minute read. Prior to the US presidential election, Mexico had already emerged as a key site for the evolving trade battle between [...]

After a relatively quiet period, UK sanctions updates have picked up pace in recent weeks. We have seen the announcement of an enhanced partnership between US and UK sanctions agencies, [...]

The European Commission on October 16 released a Recommendation on guidelines to help exporters comply with Article 5 of Regulation 2021/821 setting up a Union regime for the control of [...]

US Sanctions | EU Sanctions | UK Sanctions | Russia/Ukraine Sanctions | Other Notable Developments I. US SANCTIONS US Department of the Treasury Acts to Curtail Russia's Use of the [...]

Highlights The U.S. Department of State's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) and the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) have extended the comment period for [...]

Byline: Katrina Northrop, Eva Dou TAIPEI, Taiwan - A few weeks ago, analysts at a specialized technological lab put a microchip from China under a powerful microscope. Something didn't look [...]

Byline: JAMES GRIFFITHS; Staff SOROWAKO, INDONESIA -- A top a hill overlooking Loeha Raya, a cluster of villages on the shores of Lake Towuti, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, [...]

Coming up on a month since the presidential election, some things are starting to become clearer, though many questions remain. We will release a Viewpoints article in the next week [...]

You have always dreamed of going to space. All of us have at some point or another. And the only thing standing between you and that dream were overly-restrictive commodity [...]

The United States, the world's second-largest exporter of goods and services, is increasingly exporting a less tangible service: bankruptcy jurisdiction. Foreign companies in need of restructuring are increasingly opting to [...]

Are you an exporter of cosmetics? Remember to secure your company's interests! According to the latest report of the Polish Union of the Cosmetics Industry and the WiseEuropa Foundation entitled [...]

The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security released new guidance that, although new regulations have not been adopted, implies a significant expansion of U.S. export control compliance obligations of [...]

Highlights On Oct. 23, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and Department of State's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) issued a series of [...]

In 2023, the UK Government announced it was introducing its own Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism ('UK CBAM'). After a public consultation period, several key details on how the UK CBAM [...]

Executive Summary For the first time since 2014, the U.S. government released rules that would significantly update U.S. export controls related to space launch vehicles, spacecraft and other space-related hardware, [...]

The United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently published three new regulatory actions easing administrative burdens under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) associated with exports, [...]

You know who your friends are. You've known them for a long time, you understand one another, and, importantly, you trust each other. Well, countries have friends too. Maybe country-friends [...]

Key Takeaways: EU catch-all controls on Non-Listed Cyber-Surveillance Items are complex and far-reaching, therefore requiring EU exporters to conduct careful review and assessment prior to any exports of such items. [...]

The Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has published three rulemaking initiatives - a final rule, an interim final rule, and a proposed rule - to advance [...]

In 2021, the EU adopted an updated version of the EU Dual-Use Regulation, which establishes common standards for the control of dual-use item exports by EU member states. Among its [...]

In a land before time (technologically speaking . . . so, like, the mid-nineties), the most basic software encryption functions were controlled under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations. [...]

On 9 October 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published its first ever unilateral guidance specifically addressed to financial institutions (FIs).1 The Guidance to [...]

On October 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released a six-page guidance statement (the Guidance) to financial institutions (FIs) regarding best practices under [...]

Key Takeaways: The objective of this guidance is to provide all parties involved in the export, reexport, or transfer (in-country) of CHPL items the required tools to identify and address [...]

On October 9, 2024, the U.S. Commerce Department, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued new guidance to financial institutions on how to comply with and minimize the risk of [...]

On 24 September 2024, the G7 released updated guidance on the prevention of evasion of export controls and sanctions imposed on Russia. The aim of the guidance is to 'assist [...]

U.S. agencies have been priming the enforcement engine by, among other things, issuing export controls and economic sanctions guidance at a high frequency since Russia's further invasion of Ukraine. They [...]