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Addition of Huawei Non-U.S. Affiliates to the Entity List, the Removal of Temporary General License, and Amendments to General Prohibition Three (Foreign-Produced Direct Product Rule)

Tim Hill
Submitted by timhill on 08/20/2020

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei) and a number of non- U.S. affiliates have been placed on the Entity List. In order to further address the continuing threat to U.S. national security and foreign policy interests posed by Huawei and its non-U.S. affiliates, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) in this final rule is making three sets of...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | Thursday, August 6, 2020 | Media Contact: [email protected]

Company President And Employee Arrested In Alleged Scheme To Violate The Export Control Reform Act


Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | Monday, July 20, 2020 | Media Contact: [email protected]

California-Based Company, Company President and Employee Indicted in Alleged Scheme to Violate the Export Control Reform Act


PROVIDENCE – The president of a California-based electronics distribution company, his company an


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | Thursday, July 16, 2020 | Media Contact: [email protected]

Massachusetts Man Sentenced to 46 Months for Smuggling Goods from the United States to Iran


CONCORD - Aiden Davidson, a/k/a Hamed Aliabadi, 32, of Brighton, Massachusetts, was s


Release of “Technology” to Certain Entities on the Entity List in the Context of Standards Organizations

Tim Hill
Submitted by timhill on 06/18/2020

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei) and 114 of its foreign affiliates were added to the Entity List by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) in 2019, but continue to participate in many important international standards organizations in which U.S. companies also participate. As international standards serve as the building blocks for...

Implementation of the February 2020 Australia Group Intersessional Decisions: Addition of Certain Rigid-Walled, Single-Use Cultivation Chambers and Precursor Chemicals to the Commerce Control List

Tim Hill
Submitted by timhill on 06/17/2020

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) publishes this final rule to amend the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to implement the decisions made at the February 2020 Australia Group (AG) Intersessional Implementation Meeting, and those later adopted pursuant to the AG's silence procedure. Specifically, this rule amends Export Control...

Expansion of Export, Reexport, and Transfer (In-Country) Controls for Military End Use or Military End Users in the People's Republic of China, Russia, or Venezuela; Correction

Tim Hill
Submitted by timhill on 06/03/2020

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is correcting the formatting of a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of April 28, 2020 (here and after referred to as the April 28 rule), which becomes effective on June 29, 2020. The April 28 rule amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to expand license requirements on exports,...

Export Administration Regulations: Amendments to General Prohibition Three (Foreign-Produced Direct Product Rule) and the Entity List

Tim Hill
Submitted by timhill on 05/19/2020

This rule amends General Prohibition Three, also known as the foreign-produced direct product rule, by exercising existing authority under the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (ECRA), to impose a new control over certain foreign-produced items, when there is knowledge that such items are destined to a designated entity on the Entity List. A...

Modification of License Exception Additional Permissive Reexports

Tim Hill
Submitted by timhill on 04/28/2020

In this rule, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) proposes to amend the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by modifying License Exception Additional Permissive Reexports (APR). Specifically, BIS is proposing to remove provisions which authorize reexports of certain national security-controlled items on the Commerce Control List (CCL)...

Elimination of License Exception Civil End Users (CIV)

Tim Hill
Submitted by timhill on 04/28/2020

In this final rule, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by removing License Exception Civil End Users (CIV) and requiring a license for national security-controlled items on the Commerce Control List (CCL) to countries of national security concern. This will advance U.S. national...

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