News & Updates

The Department of Commerce is amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding seven entities under seven entries 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...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Commerce Department, through its Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), has issued a final rule adding seven Chinese space, aerospace, and related technology entities to the Entity List and severely restricting their access to commodities, software, and technologies subject to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). These seven entities have been added to the Entity List for activities contrary to U.S.

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) maintains, as part of its Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the Commerce Control List (CCL), which identifies certain items subject to Department of Commerce (Commerce) jurisdiction. Commerce is revising the CCL, as well as corresponding parts of the EAR, to implement controls on four...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued an interim final rule that establishes new export controls on four technologies that meet the criteria for emerging and foundational technologies under Section 1758 of the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA) and are essential to the national security of the United States. These Section 1758 technologies support the production of advanced semiconductors and gas turbine engines.

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Lisa O. Monaco, the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Matthew S. Axelrod, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement, announced today that the United States of America has been authorized to seize an Airbus A319-100 (the “Airbus”) owned and controlled by sanctioned Russian oligarch Andrei Skoch, pursuant to a seizure warrant from the U.S.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Office of Export Enforcement (OEE) Director John Sonderman issued an administrative Charging Letter against Far East Cable on July 29, 2022, alleging violations of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) for causing, aiding and/or abetting violations of the EAR. From September 2014 to January 2016, Far East Cable served as a cutout between the Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation (“ZTE”), which was under investigation by the U.S. Government for EAR violations at the time, and Iranian telecommunications companies.

Providing Any Form of Service to These 25 Aircraft Is Also A Likely Violation of U.S. Law

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Matthew S. Axelrod, Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement, U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”), issued a Temporary Denial Order (“TDO”) suspending the export privileges of Venezuela-based cargo airline Empresa de Transporte Aéreocargo del Sur, S.A., a/k/a Aerocargo del Sur Transportation Company, a/k/a EMTRASUR (“EMTRASUR”) for 180 days for acquiring custody or control of a U.S.-origin Boeing 747 aircraft from Mahan Air of Iran in violation of U.S.

On August 1, 2022, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) settled an administrative enforcement matter involving Luis Fernando Gracia (“Gracia”) of Nogales, Arizona. The settlement resolves an allegation that Gracia, the owner and operator of GE Equipos de Seguridad, a company located in Nogales, Arizona and in Sonora, Mexico, committed one violation of the Export Administration Regulations (“Regulations”), 15 C.F.R. Parts 730-774, in connection with the attempted unlicensed export of controlled items to Mexico.