On July 15, 2020, the US Department of State (“State Department”) updated its guidance (“Updated Guidance”) regarding the implementation of Section 232 of Title II of the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (“CAATSA” see our previous blog post on CAATSA here and our previous blog post on the 2017 State Department guidance on CAATSA Section 232 here). The Updated Guidance expands the scope of CAATSA Section 232 to target certain investments or other activities related to the…
On June 15, 2020, the US Department of Commerceâs Bureau of Industry and Security (âBISâ) published an interim final rule (âInterim Final Ruleâ) effective on June 18, 2020 to authorize the limited release of certain items subject to the Export Administration Regulations (âEARâ) to Huawei and its affiliates listed on the BIS Entity List (âHuawei Listed Entitiesâ) in the context of international efforts to develop technical standards for 5G and other new technologies. In a…
On May 27, the US Congress approved the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 (“S. 3744”), a bill which authorizes the imposition of sanctions on persons, including any official of the Chinese government, determined to be responsible for certain human rights violations and abuses committed against Muslim minority groups in China or elsewhere. The bill, which was approved amidst increasing tensions between the United States and China, now goes to the White House where…
On April 21, US Customs and Border Protection (âCBPâ) issued guidance via a bulletin in its Cargo Systems Messaging Service (available here) (âBulletinâ) on the new temporary final rule published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (âFEMAâ) imposing export restrictions on certain personal protective equipment products (âPPE Productsâ) used in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Bulletin details CBPâs implementation of the PPE export restrictions and its process for determining whether an export may be covered by…