The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which has held two hearings this year on U.S. computing chips ending up in Russian weapons, plans to hold more hearings on the subject, its chairman said last week.

More than 70 members of the House of Representative are asking the administration to ask the European Union to delay its deforestation reporting requirements, which they say would be impossible to meet for wood chips and fluff pulp, used in menstrual pads and diapers.

Export controls on American technology are helping the U.S. maintain its technological lead over foreign competitors, and the Biden administration plans to follow that blueprint for restrictions around quantum technologies, said Don Graves, deputy secretary of the Commerce Department.

Companies involved in the quantum computing, semiconductor manufacturing, additive manufacturing and other advanced technology industries covered by a recent Bureau of Industry and Security export control rule should review their compliance programs to make sure they can manage the upcoming license requirements, Gibson Dunn said in a client alert.

Kathleen Palma, former vice president of global trade controls at Boeing, has joined American semiconductor company Applied Materials as vice president of global trade, she announced on LinkedIn. She began her new role this month.

Congress should strengthen the “guardrails” around federally funded research collaboration between American universities and Chinese defense-linked universities to ensure China does not obtain technology to improve its military or commit human rights abuses, two House committees said in a new report this week.

Legislation to increase the visibility of U.S. outbound investment will be considered during House-Senate negotiations on the FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, the Senate Armed Services Committee announced last week.

The top lawmaker on the House Select Committee on China called on the U.S. to continue imposing strict export controls and investment restrictions against China, adding that those tools must be coupled with bolder investments in innovative American companies if the U.S. wants to “win” its technology competition with China.

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The next U.S. presidential administration will face a host of emerging technology issues in international trade, including advanced computing chips, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, data centers, quantum and telecommunications infrastructure, said Nazak Nikakhtar, a Wiley Rein partner and a former acting Bureau of Industry and Security undersecretary.