The proposed regulations would implement President Biden’s Executive Order that restricts certain outbound investments from the US. On June 21, 2024, the US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued a Notice of Proposed...more
On Friday, October 7, 2022, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released an interim final rule containing an enormous set of export controls that will likely damage the Chinese semiconductor, advanced computing, and...more
Following a series of government agency actions in the final months of 2021, U.S. businesses are advised to evaluate their operations in Cambodia and ensure compliance in the new year. Beginning with the tri-agency Cambodia...more
The U.S. Government is continuing its frequent and highly visible use of denied party lists as an important tool in administering the export control laws. Each of the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), the Office of...more
Earlier this month, the US Government updated its ongoing response to what the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) described as “Beijing’s campaign of repression, mass detention, and high-technology surveillance against...more
The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) in U.S. Department of Commerce has added 34 more companies to its Entity List in its continued expansion of U.S. export controls to address human rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur...more
ACI’s premier conference “Ensuring Compliance with U.S. and China Economic Sanctions” will take place on September 2021 (EDT) in a virtual format. On November 12, 2020, President Trump signed Executive Order 13959...more
The Biden Administration last week substantially modified restrictions on U.S. person investments in certain Chinese companies, focusing those new restrictions particularly on entities with ties to the Chinese defense or...more
On June 3, 2021, in one of his first major China-related actions, President Biden issued an Executive Order that amends, but keeps intact the core elements of, previous orders issued by President Trump prohibiting US Persons...more
There’s been a non-stop bombardment of recent export amendments involving China and other “countries of concern” within the last six months. The main driver behind these has been the U.S. Government’s concern about the...more
The U.S. government has recently imposed controls pertaining to “Communist Chinese Military Companies” (CCMCs or “1237 entities”); Chinese “Military End Users” (MEUs); and Chinese “Military-Intelligence End Users” (MIEUs)....more