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International Compliance Blog
EU Ends Export Authorization Scheme for Personal Protective Equipment
By Guy Soussan, Simon Hirsbrunner, Stefan Tsakanakis, Eléonore Colin
On May 26, 2020, the European Commission announced that it would not prolong the Export Authorization Scheme for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) it had put in place due to the…
Technology's Legal Edge
Commerce Department targets Huawei with additional export control restrictions
By Nicholas Klein, Thomas deButts, Tom Reynolds
On May 19, 2020, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule that imposes additional restrictions on the provision of certain foreign-made products to…
International Trade Insights
BIS Postpones Annual Export Controls Conference Until 2021
By Camron Greer
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced that its 33rd Annual Export Controls Conference scheduled to be held in Washington, D.C. from June 29 –…
Trade and Manufacturing Monitor
CFIUS Issues Proposed Rule to Amend Mandatory Declaration Requirements
By Kelley Drye
On May 21, the U.S. Treasury Department, as chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”), issued a proposed rule that more directly links mandatory filing…
Cleary Foreign Investment and International Trade Watch
BIS Expands Export Restrictions on Huawei, Extends Temporary General License
By Paul Marquardt, Chase D. Kaniecki
On May 15, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued an interim final rule (the Interim Rule) amending the direct product rule under the…
Global Investigations & Compliance Review
Sanctions Considerations for Companies and NGOs Exporting Supplies to Iran
By Richard Gibbon, Kevin McCart
In an earlier post, here, we scrutinized the form and content of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)’s March 6, 2020 guidance pertaining to…
The Trade Practitioner
New From BIS: Changes to EAR Direct Product Rule to Tighten Supply Chain for Certain Designated Entity List Organizations
A new Interim Final Rule (New Rule) issued by the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), which amended the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) (15 CFR Parts…
International Trade Law
BIS Creates a Special “Direct Product” Rule for Huawei
By Jeffrey L. Snyder, Chandler Leonard
Asserting that Huawei has taken advantage of a “loophole,” Secretary of Commerce Ross on Friday, March 15, 2020, announced an amendment of the direct product rule that for now applies…
International Trade Insights
BIS Extends Huawei TGL While Also Restricting Supply of Foreign-Produced Items to Huawei and Affiliated Entities
By Cortney Morgan, Grant Leach, Camron Greer
On May 15, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) announced two new rules changes directed at Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (“Huawei”). …
Focus on Regulation
BIS Expands Foreign-Produced Direct Product Rule With Regard to Huawei
By Anthony Capobianco, Aleksandar Dukic, Ajay Kuntamukkala, Beth Peters, Stephen Propst, Adam Berry, Andrea Fraser-Reid
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security has announced an Interim Final Rule amending the Export Administration Regulation’s General Prohibition Three, the foreign-produced direct product rule. According to the…