Most respondents to an Aerospace Industry Association survey on the AUKUS defense trade exemption said they view the change positively, although they believe the scope of the exemption may need to be expanded and the State Department’s Excluded Technology List should be revised. They also said the U.S., Australia and the U.K. should publish clearer guidance on the authorized user enrollment process to address “inconsistencies across the three jurisdictions.”
Chinese companies are likely to end up buying Nvidia chips despite reports that Beijing has ordered its top firms to cease those purchases, said Jake Sullivan, former national security adviser to President Joe Biden.
The U.S. should follow up its new Russia energy sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil with more designations in the coming weeks, said John Herbst, senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, in a commentary published by the Atlantic Council. To push for an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, Trump should “prepare for a monthslong ratcheting up of pressure on Moscow,” Herbst said. “At the moment, all [Russian President Vladimir] Putin sees for sure is another round of sanctions. It must not be the last round.”
The success of the Trump administration's AI export plan depends on how fast the U.S. can export its AI technology around the world and whether the project allows the U.S. to strengthen relationships with allies, said Pablo Chavez, an adjunct senior fellow with the Center for a New American Security's Technology and National Security Program.
The Commerce Department this week took its first step to implement a new program aimed at increasing U.S. exports of AI technologies and services, asking industry for feedback on how it should shape the program and how it should ensure that it complies with export controls and other national security regulations.
The Treasury Department on Oct. 22 announced new sanctions against Russia -- including against major energy companies Rosneft and Lukoil -- due to Moscow’s “lack of serious commitment to a peace process to end the war in Ukraine.”
The EU should expand export controls over advanced technology and impose new tariffs against China to counter Beijing’s sweeping export curbs on rare earths (see 2510090021), a major European think tank said this week.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has informed U.S.-based Arrow Electronics that it will soon remove several of Arrow’s China-based affiliates from the Entity List, the electronics parts supplier said this week.
Multiple Bureau of Industry and Security employees working for the agency's Western regional office were recently laid off, two people with knowledge of the situation told Export Compliance Daily. The employees, who received "reduction-in-force" notices, were mostly export control analysts, compliance specialists and outreach specialists. A BIS spokesperson didn't respond to a request for comment.
Export license delays within the Bureau of Industry and Security have caused American technology companies to indefinitely postpone or rescind job offers for foreign students and job seekers. The delays also have complicated trips to the U.S. by foreign companies, which sometimes need a license to visit production facilities on American soil to make decisions about ordering U.S. products.