On December 21, 2020, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added 102 Chinese and Russian companies to a new restricted “Military End User” (MEU) list in the U.S. Export Administration Regulations...more
On July 14, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order to begin the process of eliminating policy exemptions under U.S. law that give Hong Kong differential treatment in relation to China. This is the latest in a series...more
As previously discussed, on April 28, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced significant changes to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to further restrict transactions...more
7/1/2020
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On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce revised its existing export controls on Chinese telecoms company Huawei to permit limited sharing of some export-controlled technology with Huawei in the context of...more
On May 27, 2020, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that he has certified to Congress that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region no longer enjoys a high degree of autonomy from China. According to the legislative...more
On May 15, 2020, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced that it was amending the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to further restrict the ability of Chinese telecom and IT...more
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security published three new rules on April 28, 2020 that will significantly change U.S. export controls on trade and investment with China in a range of technologies and...more
Leading Senate Finance Committee Republicans laid out a list of trade actions on March 25 that they believe the Trump administration should consider to help to ease the economic downturn tied to the coronavirus pandemic....more
On December 13, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division (NSD) issued important new policy guidance regarding voluntary disclosures of export control and sanctions laws violations. Among other things,...more
12/16/2019
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The United States has reached an agreement with China that will reduce the tariff rate to 7.5 percent for approximately $120 billion of Chinese goods (a reference to merchandise on List 4A) currently subject to Section 301...more
President Trump, on December 2, 2019, announced via a Twitter post that the tariff exemptions granted to Argentina and Brazil from tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum imports would end “effective...more
12/3/2019
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Effective June 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) will add five more Chinese entities, including research institutions, to its prohibited "Entity List." Following closely on the...more
Trade Talks End Without Agreement -
The latest round of trade negotiations between the United States and China ended on May 10, 2019, without an agreement between the two sides. Chinese Vice Premier Liu He reportedly...more
5/10/2019
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