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Thomas Corcoran helped write the rules of modern Washington, then built a practice helping clients deal with the government that enforced them. More than eighty years later, the firm that bears his name faces a different challenge: clients still need to know what the rules require, but increasingly want to know whether the government will apply them as expected.
Further restrictions are reportedly approaching. Multinationals must distinguish ordinary employee use of AI from access to controlled computing and technical information.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has extended 178 exclusions from Section 301 tariffs on Chinese goods through January 9, 2027. The action preserves 164 exclusions for specified industrial, medical, consumer, and other products, along with 14 exclusions for solar manufacturing equipment. In a separate action, USTR extended for two months the suspension of fees on certain maritime transport services and additional duties on Chinese ship-to-shore cranes and other cargo-handling equipment.
Microsoft and other tech industry officials are reportedly urging the Trump administration to abandon proposed restrictions on Chinese optical transceivers, warning that supply disruptions could impede U.S. artificial-intelligence infrastructure development
The U.S. Department of Defense has removed a Shanghai-based frug testing firm from its list of “Chinese military companies,” three months after a federal judge found that the department’s designation likely rested on material factual errors and unsupported characterizations of the evidence.
Congressional scrutiny of advanced AI chip exports is turning to the integrity of the government’s decision process: who authorized shipments, what intelligence informed those decisions, and whether Nvidia’s access to senior officials affected enforcement.
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