With everyone in Washington now holding an opinion on Export Controls, the State Department's Bureau of Political - Military Affairs published a useful one pager.

BIS has published best practices for submitting export license applications for medical-related items destined for Russia, Belarus, and the occupied/covered regions of Ukraine. It reflects the U.S. Government's position that the Russian and Belarusian people are not the target of export controls imposed on Russia and Belarus due to their activities in Ukraine.

Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control designated dozens of entities as Washington continues to apply economic pressure on Moscow for it's invation of Ukraine. The July 20 actions address munitions, metals & mining, finance, energy and aerospace technology interests.

The European Council adopted a decision 20 July authorising the Commission to open negotiations, on behalf of the EU, with the United States on a Critical Minerals Agreement (CMA) and the related negotiating directives. This agreement seeks to strengthen critical minerals supply chains and mitigate some of the negative repercussions of the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on EU industry.

The United States and Mexico announced a course of remediation to address denials of rights at the Goodyear facility in the city and state of San Luis Potosí. The announcement marks the fourth time the United States and Mexico have agreed on a formal course of remediation under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)’s Facility-Specific Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (RRM).   The July 19th announcement follows a request the United States sent to Mexico on May 22, 2023, asking Mexico to review whether Goodyear was failing to provide workers with the beneficial terms of an existing sector-wide agreement (contrato ley) in place for the rubber manufacturing industry.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis Taylor will lead an agribusiness trade mission to Malaysia and Singapore on Oct. 30-Nov. 3.

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated  Jordan “Orce” Kamcev, in North Macedonia pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14033.  Mr. Kamcev has been …

The full committee will hold a markup to consider various measures regarding oversight of State Department implementation of AUKUS along with other bills Date: Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 …

CBP released a mid-year report on efforts to eliminate counterfeit goods from the supply chain, as well as those made with forced labor from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.  The …

Customs and Border Protection has introduced an updated Frequently Asked Questions page, providing importers and policymakers current information on the state of the hotly debated import provision. …

Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is adding four Cyber surveillance entities to the Entity List under the destinations of Greece, Hungary, Ireland, and North Macedonia. The ERC determined to add the firms to the Entity List for "trafficking in cyber exploits used to gain access to information systems, thereby threatening the privacy and security of individuals and organizations worldwide."

he Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing three web general licenses (GLs) issued in the Syria Sanctions Regulations, Iran Transactions and Sanctions …

The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has implemented adjustments to the ten-digit statistical reporting categories in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). These alterations impact two exclusions reinstated in association with the Section 301 investigation into China’s Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and Innovation, originally outlined at 87 FR 17380 (March 28, 2022).

The State Department has published a Memo articulating the AUKUS Trade Authorization Mechanism (ATAM)designed to facilitate trade of U.S. defense articles and defense services between the United States, the UK, and Australia in support of AUKUS programs, The AUKUS Trade Authorization Mechanism will provide a consistent framework that will cover Direct Commercial Sales (DCS) (private sector-to-government or private sector-to-private sector transfers) as well as some items that were previously sold as Foreign Military Sales (FMS) (government-to-government agreements) but may be handled as DCS under ATAM.

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Chair of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) of the Education and the Workforce Committee, recently sent a letter to the President and Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. expressing concerns about the University's joint institute with Tsinghua University and the Shenzhen government in China.. The lawmakers pointed out that the Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI) provides the People's Republic of China (PRC) with easy access to Berkeley's research and expertise. They emphasized that this access potentially allows the PRC to gain economic, technological, and military advantages.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved the transfer of nuclear-powered submarines to Australia, a move that signifies progress for the AUKUS security pact. The decision was part of the National Defense Authorization Act, granting Australia a unique 20-year exemption from the stringent export rules of ITAR.

The Department of Commerce launched the Data Privacy Framework (DPF) program website today, enabling eligible U.S. companies to self-certify their participation in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework …

A Russian citizen alleged to have ties with Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) will face charges in a U.S. court today. The charges relate to conspiracy, money laundering, and participating in a …

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), declared the enforcement of financial penalties against two defense companies,  resolving alleged infractions of the antiboycott regulations of the …

New foreign direct investment in the United States dropped by $185.1 billion – or 51 percent – in 2022, compared to the $362.6 billion recorded the previous year, the Commerce Department reported last week. Expenditures by foreign direct investors to acquire, establish or expand US businesses totaled $177.5 billion in 2022, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis report.