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Export Control
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The Trade Practitioner
DOJ and Commerce Department Launch Disruptive Technology Strike Force
On February 16, 2023, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that the DOJ and the Commerce Department were launching the “Disruptive Technology Strike Force,” to be led jointly…
International Trade Insights
Export Control Violations Result in Significant Monetary Penalties and Continuing Compliance Training Obligations
By Cortney Morgan, Grant Leach, Emily Mikes, Eric Dama (Former Husch Blackwell Attorney)
In a recent order, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) revoked the export privileges for Obaidullah Sayed, an Illinois resident. Sayed was convicted of conspiring to…
International Trade Insights
Biden Administration No Longer Approving Export Licenses to Chinese Tech Giant Huawei
By Cortney Morgan, Grant Leach, Eric Dama (Former Husch Blackwell Attorney), Emily Mikes
According to recent reports, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) has stopped granting export licenses to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (“Huawei”). The U.S. government has…
Global Trade Law Blog
Tightening the Cordon – U.S. Restricts Licensing Policy and Adds Allies to Technology Controls
By Reid Whitten, Julien Blanquart
Update and Correction: We had understood that the date for the announcement of a regulatory change would be February 13. That understanding is (pretty obviously, now, on February 14) incorrect.…
Antitrust & Competition Blog
DOJ’s New Corporate Enforcement Policy for the Criminal Division and its Impact on Cases handled by other Divisions
By Iris Bennett, Ali Burney, Brian Fleming, Patrick Linehan, Dave Stetson, Wendy Wysong, Rachel Peck, Ryan Pereira
In this blog post, we provide an overview of the updates to the Criminal Division’s Corporate Enforcement Policy (CEP) and discuss the impact of these changes on the corporate enforcement…
Capital Thinking
Chips Chatter: January 18-23, 2023
By Pablo Carrillo, Ludmilla Kasulke
Last Week: GOP To Review Export Controls Enforcement, Citing China Concerns House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX) asked U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo for documents on the…
International Trade Law
Chief Counsel, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Jason Prince Joins Crowell
By Edward Goetz
Washington, D.C. – January 23, 2023: Jason Prince, former chief counsel to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, has joined Crowell & Moring and will advise financial…
The Trade Practitioner
BIS Amends EAR to Apply Recent Advanced Computer and Semiconductor Export Controls to Macau
On January 18, 2023, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published in the Federal Register an Interim Final Rule, 88 Fed. Reg. 2821, amending the Export…
SmarTrade
BIS Includes Macau Under Semiconductor Export Controls Implemented Against China
By Scott E. Diamond**, Samir D. Varma, Francesca M.S. Guerrero
On January 18, 2023, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued an Interim Final Rule extending export controls currently in place for China on advanced computing…
International Compliance Blog
BIS Extends Advanced Computing and Semiconductor Rules to Macau
By Evan Abrams, Jack Hayes, Peter Jeydel, Wendy Wysong
On January 17, 2023, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued an interim final rule (the “January 17 rule”), expanding its recent China-focused export controls,…