On March 11, 2022, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) imposed restrictions on the exports, reexports, and transfer of luxury goods to all end users in Russia and Belarus and to certain Russian and Belarusian oligarchs and malign actors located worldwide. This action is part of a new round of measures targeting Russia and Belarus announced by the White House today (see here and here) that are being implemented in…
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is extending the comment period for its November 19, 2018, advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM), “Review of Controls for Certain Emerging Technologies” until January 10, 2019. In response to requests received from members of the public, BIS believes it is appropriate to extend the comment period to provide interested parties additional time to submit their responses to the ANPRM. See our previous blog post here.
On November 19, 2018, the Department of Commerceās Bureau of Industry and Security (āBISā) published a long-awaited advance notice of proposed rulemaking (āANPRMā) seeking public comment on criteria for identifying āemerging technologiesā that are essential to US national security with a view to imposing export controls on such largely uncontrolled technologies. This process is being undertaken pursuant to Section 1758 of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (āECRAā), which mandates the establishment of a regular multi-agency process for identifying appropriate controls on emerging and foundational technologies that are āessential to the national security of the United Statesā and that are currently subject to no or very limited controls under other existing US export control regimes. (BIS also announced that it will issue a separate ANPRM in the future regarding the identification of foundational technologies that may be important to US national security.)