The Commerce Department added the following 11 entries to the Entity List (here):
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security will now consider approval for U.S. telecommunications exports to Sudan on a case-by-case basis, rather than keeping in place the agency’s previous policy of denial for such exports (here). BIS will also expand the Consumer Communications Devices license exception for U.S. telecommunications exports to the Sudanese private sector, BIS said in a final rule. The CCD license exception, authorized in 2009 but restricted to exports to Cuba (here), will cover shipments to Sudan beginning Feb. 18. Most of the items covered under the CCD don’t require licenses for export to most countries, said BIS in the final rule. The Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a concurrent final rule amending the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations (here).
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Feb. 13:
The Pennsylvania Foreign-Trade Zone Corporation has submitted an application to establish a foreign-trade zone between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, according to a notice issued by the FTZ Board (here). The proposed zone would cover Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Fulton, Huntingdon and Somerset Counties. It would be established under the Alternative Site Framework, which streamlines processes for designation of new FTZ subzones and usage-driven sites within the service area by allowing companies to request zone status through the relatively simple "minor boundary modification" process. Comments are due April 14.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Feb. 12:
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security issued an order (here) to deny export privileges for Maple Pacific Corporation and its owner, Andrew Hsu, until 2022. A U.S. District Court in California convicted Maple of illegally exporting steel manufacturing parts to Iran without a license in February 2012. BIS banned Maple and Hsu from exporting goods from the U.S. for a ten-year period. Hsu still has 45 days, from the Feb. 6 date of the BIS order, to appeal, although BIS says Hsu has so far not contacted the agency. All individuals are also prohibited from exporting goods on behalf of Hsu, BIS said. BIS put Maple and Hsu on the Denied Persons List on Feb. 9 (see 1502100007).
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board announced its approval of the reorganization under the Alternative Site Framework of FTZ 84 in Houston (here). The zone will now cover all of Harris County. Under the Alternative Site Framework reorganization, companies will now be able to request subzone status through the relatively simple "minor boundary modification" process.
The Bureau of Industry and Security added the following company and individual, both based in Mission Viejo, Calif., to the Denied Persons List on Feb. 9 (here):
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Feb. 10:
The Commerce Department issued its quarterly update (here) to its annual list of foreign government subsidies on articles of cheese subject to an in-quota rate of duty that were imported during the period July 1, 2014, through Sept. 30, 2014.