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The Bureau of Industry and Security could use its existing “catch-all controls” to tighten restrictions around exports of sensitive artificial intelligence models, eliminating the need to develop new regulations to address emerging AI export risks, researchers with Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology said this week. The researchers said the catch-all controls -- which allow BIS to restrict exports if there is “knowledge” the item will be used in certain dangerous ways -- may be “sufficient” to “address the use of AI in more traditional national security realms.”
A Puyallup, Washington, resident who illegally exported optical magnifiers to South Korea agreed to export compliance training as part of a settlement agreement announced by the Bureau of Industry and Security this week. If Jaeyoun Jung doesn’t complete the training, he may be subject to a two-year temporary denial order, BIS said.
Export Compliance Daily is providing readers with the top stories from last week in case you missed them. You can find any article by searching for the title or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference number.
A new rule change by the Bureau of Industry and Security will subject a broader range of chemical mixtures to declaration requirements, including for export or import. The revisions, outlined in a final rule that takes effect July 3, lowers the concentration threshold level at which mixtures containing certain controlled chemicals are subject to the declaration requirements. The change brings the U.S. Chemical Weapons Convention Regulations “into further alignment” with guidelines adopted by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in 2009, which established the lower concentration threshold limit for certain chemicals.
New potential U.S. export controls on a broader set of artificial intelligence-related chips could have massive impacts on the chip industry and American chipmaker Nvidia, said Colette Kress, Nvidia’s chief financial officer. Kress, speaking about reports that the Biden administration could tighten existing chip export restrictions as it prepares to finalize its China chip export control rule from October, said new license requirements could deal permanent damage to American chip industry sales in China.
The Bureau of Industry and Security this week removed a Russian tour company from a temporary denial order imposed against Nordwind Airlines, a Russian airline that BIS said illegally operates aircraft on flights into and out of the country.
The Bureau of Industry and Security announced the launch of a formal process to coordinate with certain allies on export enforcement efforts, an effort the agency’s Office of Export Enforcement has been working on for months. BIS said the “partnership” -- agreed to with the fellow Five Eyes partners Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K. during a meeting in Canada this week -- will leverage each country’s resources to expand enforcement “capacity” and better “prevent and deter evasion of export controls,” BIS said.
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The U.S. should launch a new office within the Bureau of Industry and Security to measure the intended and unintended impacts of export controls on global supply chains before they are implemented, technology policy experts said in a new Atlantic Council report this week. This could help the U.S. better calibrate its trade restrictions so they don’t alienate allies and hurt American competitiveness, the report said, and could ultimately better convince trade partners to join in on the controls.