Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., has put forth several changes to try to soften opposition to a bill that would require U.S. manufacturers of advanced AI chips to make their products available to American firms before selling them to China and other "countries of concern," a supporter of such restrictions said Oct. 24.

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.”

A former State Department analyst on export control and sanctions evasion under President Joe Biden and a former National Security Council director for China under President George W. Bush agreed that the Bureau of Industry and Security's 50% rule was not fully thought through before its announcement.

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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.”

Asked whether the Trump administration is considering new software-related export controls on China in response to Beijing's sweeping export restrictions over rare earths, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said: "I will confirm that everything is on the table."

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.

U.S. export controls on design technology for advanced computing chips have spurred China to speed up pursuing its own capabilities, according to a new report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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.