Secretary of Commerce Ross announced the Entity List additions on Friday, May 22, 2020, via separate press releases, citing 24 of the entities for “represent[ing] a significant risk of supporting procurement of items for military end-use in China,” and the remaining 9 entities for their complicity in human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous
Export Administration Regulations (EAR)
BIS Creates a Special “Direct Product” Rule for Huawei
Asserting that Huawei has taken advantage of a “loophole,” Secretary of Commerce Ross on Friday, March 15, 2020, announced an amendment of the direct product rule that for now applies only to Huawei and its affiliates on the Entity List. The amendment expands the scope of the rule to capture certain foreign manufactured items, making…
Commerce Announces EAR Rule Change to Further Target Huawei’s Access to U.S. Technologies
In a press release published on May, 15, 2020, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced plans to move forward with a long debated rule change that will extend US export jurisdiction over additional foreign-produced items. Though not yet published in the Federal Register, BIS announced a change to the foreign-produced direct product rule…
BIS Broadens U.S. Government Visibility into Exports to Chinese and Russian Military End Users and End Uses
On April 28, 2020, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published two new final rules and a proposed rule amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to: (1) impose export license requirements on an expanded scope of items when destined for “military end use” or to “military end users” in China, Russia,…