The Bureau of Industry and Security soon will place new export controls over certain scientific testing and industrial processing equipment destined to Pakistan that had not previously faced license requirements, saying the items have been diverted through Pakistan to companies on the Entity List.
Richard Allen, a former Navy officer, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in a scheme to steal more than $850,000 worth of military gear and sell it to bidders from China, Russia and dozens of other countries, DOJ announced last week.
An Indian national violated U.S. export controls by lying on at least one export application for dual-use aerospace technology, telling the government the item would be exported to India when he actually planned to send it to Russia, according to a DOJ indictment unsealed last week and the sworn affidavit of a Bureau of Industry and Security special agent.
The U.S. government should create a joint interagency task force led by the national security adviser to develop better ways to prevent China from obtaining sensitive dual-use technology from the U.S. and its allies, a bipartisan congressionally mandated commission said Nov. 19.
A new Government Accountability Office report found that 73% of firearms recovered from the Caribbean and traced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from 2018 to 2022 could be sourced back to the U.S., underscoring the need to curb illegal gun exports to the region, a group of congressional Democrats said Nov. 14.
China’s Ministry of Commerce released its new dual-use export control list Nov. 15 ahead of the Dec. 1 effective date for its recently issued dual-use export regulations, which outline how the ministry will approach dual-use licensing and export enforcement, detail possible extraterritorial impacts of the controls, and more (see 2410210042).
The next Trump administration is likely to build on Biden’s outbound investment executive order and semiconductor export controls against China, researchers said last week, and could double down on sanctions against Iran and Venezuela in a return to the “maximum pressure” campaign Trump embraced during his first term.
A New York City-based electronics store was fined $5.4 million by CBP and ordered to forfeit more than $460,000 after it allegedly gave false export information to a freight forwarder and breached record-keeping rules, the Bureau of Industry and Security said last week.
The Trump administration would be unwise to expand its export controls to cover older-generation semiconductors destined to China, but it could pursue new restrictions over less advanced versions of the tools used to make certain chips, technology policy analysts said in interviews, particularly if it’s willing to be more aggressive than the Biden administration in talks with the Dutch and Japanese.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said in a statement Nov. 13 that she expects to become the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee in the next Congress, which begins in January.