Semiconductor industry officials are preparing to push for export control modernization over certain electronics on the Commerce Control List, which they say will help controls avoid unintended consequences on U.S. companies and more accurately reflect national security concerns. The effort, led by the Semiconductor Industry Association, will look to convince the Bureau of Industry and Security to update certain control parameters and definitions, and make technical changes in Category 3 of the CCL, which officials view as out of date.
The Bureau of Industry and Security is looking for candidates for its seven Technical Advisory Committees, the agency said in an April 27 notice. BIS said it will choose candidates from firms producing a “broad range of items currently controlled for national security, nonproliferation, foreign policy, and short supply reasons or that are proposed for such controls,” and will look to balance its TAC membership with officials from large and small firms. TAC members serve terms of “not more than four consecutive years” and must obtain “secret-level clearances” before they’re appointed. Applicants should send a resume to Yvette.Springer@bis.doc.gov by Sept. 30.
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The Bureau of Industry and Security fined a Maryland company and its owner $42,000 for illegally exporting crime control items, BIS said in an April 15 order. The agency said Panther Trading Company (PTC) of Landsdowne and its owner, Harsimran Singh, illegally exported $11,000 worth of crime control equipment to Mexico, $22,000 worth of goods to the Dominican Republic and helped a Nigerian buyer buy $12,343 worth of goods.
The U.S. will likely continue to update the regulations for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., which has created some complications for industry, trade lawyers told the American Bar Association April 15. The recently revised regulations have also severely reduced incoming Chinese investments, which could have long-term implications, one lawyer said.
Kevin Wolf, a former top Bureau of Industry and Security official, presented his strategy for the future of U.S. export controls to address emerging security challenges during an April 15 Akin Gump webinar. He also briefly assessed U.S. export control policy during the Donald Trump administration and continued to say he isn’t behind the rumors that he’s being considered for the BIS undersecretary role see 2104070026).
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G. Nagesh Rao is now the permanent chief information officer for the Bureau of Industry and Security after previously serving in an acting capacity (see 2101290059), a BIS spokesperson said April 12. Rao works as an information officer to help support BIS’s information technology modernization efforts, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Intel “generally” opposes the U.S. imposing “unilateral export controls” on foreign tech companies suspected of threatening U.S. national security, Tom Quillin, senior director-security and trust policy, told a virtual forum convened April 8 by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security to identify risks in the semiconductor supply chain (see 2103290003). BIS said it will use feedback from the forum, plus comments received in its notice of inquiry (see 2104060045), to help shape recommendations to the White House on President Joe Biden’s Feb. 24 executive order to relieve supply chain bottlenecks (see 2103110047 and 2102240068).