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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) imposed restrictions on seven Iranian drone producers, including on the transfers of foreign-made components to them. These entities are added to the Entity List for contributing to Russia’s military and defense industrial base through the production of Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or “drones”) which are being transferred to Russia for use in its war of aggression against Ukraine.

Pursuant to Section 766.24 of the Export Administration Regulations, 15 C.F.R. Parts 730-774 (2021) (“EAR” or “the Regulations”), 1 I hereby grant the request of the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”), U.S. Department of Commerce, through its Office of Export Enforcement (“OEE”), to renew the temporary denial order (“TDO”) issued in this matter on August 2, 2022. I find that renewal of this order is necessary in the public interest to prevent an imminent violation of the Regulations...

On October 7, 2022, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) updated the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to implement necessary controls on advanced computing integrated circuits (ICs), computer commodities that contain such ICs, and certain semiconductor manufacturing items, and to make other changes to the EAR to ensure that...

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) publishes this final rule to amend the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to reflect decisions made at the November 2021 and March 2022 Australia Group (AG) Virtual Implementation Meetings and the AG Plenary Meeting held in July 2022. The amendments include revisions to certain Export Control...

Defendant Admits Using Intermediary to Funnel Payments for United States Army Aviation-Related Software Sent to Restricted Beijing University

SAN FRANCISCO – Jonathan Yet Wing Soong pleaded guilty today to violating export control laws in connection with a scheme to secretly funnel sensitive aeronautics software to a Beijing university, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds; Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp; Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, Office of Export Enforcement (BIS), Special Agent in Charge John D. Masters; Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) Special Agent in Charge Bryan D. Denny. The plea was accepted by the Hon.

PROVIDENCE – Tao Jiang, the president and owner of Broad Tech System, Inc., a California-based electronics distribution company, today admitted to a federal judge in Providence that he and his company participated in a conspiracy to conceal information from the U.S. Department of Commerce and from U.S. Customs and Border Protection as part of a scheme to illegally export chemicals manufactured and/or distributed by a Rhode Island-based company to a technology company in China with ties to the Chinese military, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.

The Bureau of Industry and Security is amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by modifying one entity on the Entity List. This final rule modifies one entity on the Entity List under the destination of Russia.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released a rule modifying the existing Entity List restrictions for the Russia-based Private Military Company Wagner (“Wagner Group”) resulting in the imposition of additional severe restrictions on the Wagner Group’s ability to acquire items globally to support the Russian government’s unprovoked war in Ukraine and ensuring that the license requirements apply to Wagner Group wherever located worldwide.

The Department of Commerce is amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding thirty-six entities to the Entity List. These entities have been determined by the U.S. Government to be acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States and will be listed on the Entity List under the...