News & Updates

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) within the US Department of Commerce is pleased to announce the appointment of G. Nagesh Rao as Chief Information Officer, and his selection to the career Senior Executive Service ranks. Mr.

On January 15, 2021, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule establishing end-use and end-user controls, as well as controls on specific activities of U.S. persons, with respect to certain military-intelligence end uses and end users. These new controls were made effective on March 16, 2021. In this interim...

Anniversary event highlights strong U.S.-Malaysia partnership and the country’s role as a regional champion of strategic trade controls

SAVANNAH, GA: A Russian national and his engineering company have admitted to charges that they violated U.S. national security laws.

WASHINGTON – On February 24, 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14017,
“America’s Supply Chains,” focusing on the need for resilient, diverse, and secure supply chains
to ensure U.S. economic prosperity and national security. The Executive Order directs the
Secretary of Commerce to, within 100 days, submit a report to the President identifying risks in
the semiconductor manufacturing and advanced packaging supply chains and proposing policy
recommendations to address these risks.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The United States has seized “r-m-n.net” and “Almaalomah.com,” two websites that were unlawfully utilized by Kata’ib Hizballah, a Specially Designated National and a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

“The internet must not be used as a recruitment tool for terrorist organizations to promote violent extremism and spread their hateful rhetoric,” said Raj Parekh, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. “We stand committed with our law enforcement partners to use all available resources to combat terrorism.”

The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) will expand export restrictions on Russia pursuant to a March 2, 2021 determination by the Secretary of State that the Government of Russia has used chemical or biological weapons in violation of international law or lethal chemical or biological weapons against its own nationals.

The Department of Commerce released the following statement:

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Department of Commerce, is correcting an interim final rule, ``Expansion of Certain End-Use and End-User Controls and Controls on Specific Activities of U.S. Persons,'' that appeared in the Federal Register of January 15, 2021 (hereinafter referred to as the January 15 rule) by revising an incorrect...

WASHINGTON – On March 5, 2021, Jeremy Pelter, performing the non-exclusive functions and duties of
the Under Secretary for Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce, issued a final
order imposing a 15-year denial order against Alexander Brazhnikov, Jr. This penalty was recommended
by U.S. Coast Guard Administrative Law Judge Michael J. Devine based on a BIS and FBI investigation
into unlicensed exports of electronic components from the United States to Russia, including parties on
BIS’s Entity List.