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Commerce Department: Final Determination of Russia-Backed Cybersecurity, Antivirus Software

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The U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services (OICTS) within the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a Final Determination on June 20, 2024, pursuant to Executive...more

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Bipartisan Group Introduces Legislation to Control Exports of AI Systems

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Overseas Critical Exports (ENFORCE) Act—a bill to expand the authority of the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to control the export of artificial intelligence (AI) systems and other emerging technology with national...more

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Latest Updates in Trade Controls for the Tech Sector

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Melissa Duffy and Trevor Coval contributed their thought leadership to the American Conference Institute’s 14th Annual Global Encryption, Cloud & Cyber Export Controls Conference, held in San Francisco on May 14-16. Melissa...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Biden Administration Restricts U.S. Exports of Advanced Computing and Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment, Software, and...

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On October 7, 2022, the Biden Administration announced new restrictions on exports to China of advanced integrated circuits (“ICs”), computers and components containing advanced ICs, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and...more

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Congress Considers Legislation to Shift Export Control Jurisdiction from the Department of Commerce

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Based on consistent comments by the US Congress, think tanks, and the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, several members of Congress proposed legislation to shift jurisdiction for export controls from Commerce...more

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When Do U.S. Companies and Institutions Need to Be Concerned about National Security?

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In today’s world, companies in various industries are increasingly running into issues that have national security implications. Research universities and other academic institutions can face issues involving national...more

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Commerce Publishes New Controls on Emerging Technologies

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On October 5, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a rule implementing certain changes in the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) that were agreed upon in December 2019...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Reminder Regarding the Jurisdictional Reach and Limits of U.S. Export Control, Sanctions, and Foreign Investment Regulations

United States export control, sanctions, and foreign investment (CFIUS) regulations advance U.S. national security and foreign policy interests, but in very different ways. They are also quite complex. As a result, media...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Commerce Department’s New Export-Related Restrictions Inhibit Semiconductor Design by and Manufacturing for Huawei

In response to the announcement on Friday by the U.S. Department of Commerce of new export-related restrictions targeting Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and several of its non-U.S. affiliates (collectively, Huawei), Sen. Ben...more

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BIS revises Country Group designations for Russia and Yemen, imposing additional licensing requirements and removing availability...

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On 24 February 2020 the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce published a final rule amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and imposing additional export licensing...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

From CFIUS, With Love: The FIRRMA Regulations

The most pressing question around the new FIRRMA regulations is “Will my transaction be covered?” To provide a bit of guidance on that point, we present an illustration from our upcoming Second Edition of The CFIUS Book due...more

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Commerce Adopts Export Controls on Artificial Intelligence Software for Geospacial Imagery – Controls on Additional Technologies...

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On January 6, 2020 the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) within the Commerce Department adopted export licensing requirements on certain artificial intelligence software used to automate the analysis of geospatial...more

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BIS Publishes a Temporary Unilateral Control on a Type of Machine Learning Software for Automating Analyses of Geospatial Imagery...

Key Points - On January 6, 2020, BIS published an interim final rule to add a new worldwide (minus Canada) unilateral export control on a type of geospatial imagery software specially designed for training Deep...more

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US Issues First Unilateral Export Control on Artificial Intelligence Software

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This software now requires a BIS authorization to be exported or reexported to all countries except for Canada. Companies that develop or use artificial intelligence (AI) to solve geospatial problems or in geospatial...more

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DDTC Publishes ITAR Carve-out for Encrypted Technical Data and Software, and Further Harmonizes Definitions Common to the ITAR and...

• On December 26, 2019, DDTC published an interim final rule that would allow, under certain conditions, encrypted technical data and software that is subject to the ITAR to be sent, shipped or stored outside the United...more

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Reminder: Commerce Department Prohibitions Pertaining to Huawei Can Apply to Transactions by Non-U.S. Companies

• Since the addition of Huawei and many of its affiliates to the Entity List, there has been significant media coverage over which types of transactions involving the listed entities are, and are not, prohibited without a...more

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Mergers and Takeovers: UK Strengthens National Security Scrutiny

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The UK government has widened the circumstances in which it may block mergers and takeovers of businesses in the military, dual-use, computing hardware and quantum technology sectors. Further strengthening of the UK rules is...more

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DDTC and BIS Solicit Comments Regarding Controls over Explosives, Personal Protective Equipment, and Military and Intelligence...

• DDTC and BIS have published concurrent NOIs requesting public comments on the controls over the export and reexport of explosives, personal protective equipment, and military and intelligence electronics. (By volume and...more

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