7/31/2020 The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to suspend the availability of all License Exceptions for Hong Kong that provide differential treatment as compared to those available to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). As announced on BIS’s website on
Read more →On July 14, 2020, the President signed an Executive Order that requires, among other actions, Hong Kong to be treated as the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for the purposes of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA), with a specific carve-out to support Hong Kong persons residing
Read more →(Source: Federal Register, 21 Aug 2019.) [Excerpts.] 84 FR 43493-43501: Addition of Certain Entities to the Entity List and Revision of Entries on the Entity List AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and Security, Commerce. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei) and sixty-eight of its non-U.S. affiliates
Read more →Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amended the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to formally recognize and implement India’s membership in the Wassenaar Arrangement (Wassenaar or WA). Further, BIS provide preferential treatment in license exception Strategic Trade Authorization. This action befits India’s status as a Major Defense Partner and
Read more →The U.S. Government determined that these parties acted contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States. A license is required to export items or technology and there is a presumption for denial.
Read more →On April 25th, the Justice Department fined FLIR Systems, Inc. $30M, resulting from findings of 347 unauthorized exports during 2007-2012. The violations are related to foreign person employment, including dual/third county nationals of Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, license management issues related to not adhering to the scope
Read more →https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/forms-documents/federal-register-notices-1/2250-83-fr-37423-entity-list-final-rule-8-1-18/file This rule amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding forty-four entities (eight entities and thirty-six subordinate institutions) to the Entity List. The entities that are being added to the Entity List have been determined by the U.S. Government to be acting contrary to the national
Read more →https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/forms-documents/federal-register-notices-1/2250-83-fr-37423-entity-list-final-rule-8-1-18/file In this rule, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to formally recognize and implement India’s membership in the Wassenaar Arrangement (Wassenaar or WA). Further, BIS removes India from Country Group A:6 and places it in Country Group A:5. This
Read more →After a period of being held in stasis, the Export Administration Act has finally been permanently renewed by Congress. Since its expiration in 1996, the validity of the EAR was challenged in court and was ruled to be legally administered through the International Economic Emergency Powers Act
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