The PRC Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) mandates regular data compliance audits. Following a consultation period beginning in August 3, 2023, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) issued the Measures for...more
On February 21, 2025, President Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) announcing an “America First Investment Policy” focused on promoting foreign investment in the United States from allies and...more
On Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, President Donald Trump issued three executive orders raising tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and the People's Republic of China. The executive orders were issued under the International...more
On February 1, 2025, President Trump signed three Executive Orders (“EO”) under Section 1702(a)(1)(B) of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977(“IEEPA”)declaring a national emergency due to increased...more
DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (“AI”) startup, recently made waves across the global AI landscape with the release of its latest open-source R1 model. While some versions of DeepSeek’s model can be downloaded and...more
On January 14, 2025, the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published its Final Rule (Final Rule or the Rule) on “Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain:...more
U.S. investors interested in investing in advanced Chinese technology companies may now be constrained by the U.S. Government’s first-ever outbound investment rule (Final Rule) which took effect on Jan. 2, 2025. The Final...more
On January 8, 2025, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) published its Final Rule to implement President Biden’s Executive Order 14117, “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States...more
On December 31, 2024, WHEMCO-Steel Castings, Inc. (“Whemco” or “Petitioner”), filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on U.S. imports of slag pots from the People’s Republic of China...more
On January 2, 2025, the US Department of the Treasury's regulations implementing Executive Order 14105 “Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern” (the...more
On December 23, 2024, the Biden administration announced that the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative ("USTR") is launching a new investigation into China's trade practices with respect to the semiconductor industry. In...more
On December 18, 2024, American Active Anode Material Producers (“AAAMP” or “Petitioner”), filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on U.S. imports of Active Anode Material from the People’s...more
Although the Trump transition is well underway, the Biden administration made news in the national security space by announcing significant new export restrictions on semiconductor equipment and technology destined for the...more
On November 14, 2024, the UK government unveiled its National Payments Vision (the Vision), a strategy designed to reshape the UK’s payments ecosystem. This Vision responds to the findings of the 2023 Future of Payments...more
On November 25, 2024, Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc. (“Saint-Gobain” or “Petitioner”), filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on U.S. imports of Sol Gel Alumina-Based Ceramic...more
On October 29, 2024, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) published its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) to implement President Biden’s Executive Order 14117, “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data...more
Through the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”), the U.S. Government has long had the authority to review inbound investment. The Final Rule formalizes the U.S. Government’s authority to regulate...more
On October 29, 2024, IDC Group, Inc., Iowa Spring Manufacturing, Inc., and Service Spring Corp. (collectively “Petitioners”), filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on U.S. imports of...more
Last week, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) published a proposed rule that would amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement a statutory prohibition on DOD awarding contracts with...more
The U.S. Commerce Department is soliciting comments on a proposed rule to prohibit importing and selling Vehicle Connectivity System hardware and software designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons owned by,...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently filed a petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for a rehearing en banc in the Steve Wynn case, asking the D.C. Circuit to reconsider U.S. v....more
Continuing the Biden administration’s focus on securing the nation’s critical technologies, on September 23, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a Notice of Proposed...more
On Tuesday, September 3, 2024, Linda Sun, a former high-ranking official in New York State’s government, was arrested in Brooklyn and charged with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) for allegedly acting as...more
On July 9, 2024, the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF) issued its annual update to its guidelines enforcing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (“UFLPA”) in a Report to Congress titled “2024 Updates to the...more
An August 4 deadline is fast approaching for comments to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that was issued June 21. The NPRM will restrict, for national security purposes, specific...more