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Export Control
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Global Trade Law Blog
The Benefits of Friends: Removing Space Export Controls for Allies (Part III of IV)
By Reid Whitten, Jonathan Wang
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…
Global Trade Law Blog
EU’s New Export Due Diligence Guidelines: Keeping Tabs on Cyber-Surveillance Technology
By Curtis Dombek, Julien Blanquart, Elisavet Papathanasiou
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…
U.S. Legal Insights for French Businesses
The Commercial Industry Gets More Space: Reduced Export Controls Ease Cross-Border Collaborations (Part II of IV)
By Reid Whitten, Jonathan Wang, Jodi Goldberg
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.…
U.S. Legal Insights for French Businesses
Space Rules, or . . . Space Rules!: Reduced Export Controls Ease Cross-Border Collaborations (Part I of IV)
By Reid Whitten, Jonathan Wang, Jodi Goldberg
We may imagine that a space company begins with only a few screws and some sheet metal in a garage.[1] But regardless of its origins, not long after that early phase,…
Global Trade Law Blog
The Commercial Industry Gets More Space: Reduced Export Controls Ease Cross-Border Collaborations (Part II of IV)
By Reid Whitten, Jonathan Wang
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.…
SmarTrade
BIS, DDTC Publish a Series of Rules to Modernize U.S. Space-Related Export Controls
By Francesca M.S. Guerrero, Samir D. Varma, Aaron C. Mandelbaum, Scott E. Diamond**
On October 17, 2024, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released three rules—one Final Rule, one Interim Final Rule, and one Proposed Rule—to reduce controls on a…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
Davis Polk Discusses Commerce Department Guidance Expanding Export-Control Requirements for Financial Institutions
By Kendall Howell, Paul D. Marquardt, Will Schisa, Daniel P. Stipano, Charles Marshall Wilson
On October 9, 2024, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued new guidance for financial institutions on best practices for compliance with export control laws and regulations (the…
Global Trade Law Blog
Space Rules, or . . . Space Rules!: Reduced Export Controls Ease Cross-Border Collaborations (Part I of IV)
By Reid Whitten, Jonathan Wang
We may imagine that a space company begins with only a few screws and some sheet metal in a garage.[1] But regardless of its origins, not long after that early…
SmarTrade
BIS Adds 26 Companies to the Entity List
By Scott E. Diamond**, Samir D. Varma, Francesca M.S. Guerrero, Aaron C. Mandelbaum
On October 21, 2024, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a Final Rule adding 26 companies to its Entity List for activities contrary to U.S.…
Global Trade Law Blog
Banks Do Export, Too: New BIS Guidance Tags Financial Firms with Export Compliance Responsibilities
By Reid Whitten, Jordan Mallory
“Every export—every single one—has a related financial transaction” You are a banker. You do bankery things. You look at the ledgers, you tot up the numbers, you manage the accounts.…