- Key takeaway #1The new guidance amounts to prohibitions on U.S. and non-U.S. persons using, selling, transferring, financing, or servicing Huawei’s Ascend 910B, 910C, and 910D chips, as well as other comparable chips from other Chinese companies.
- Key takeaway #2While the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued some advanced computing-related
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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…