The Bureau of Industry and Security this week removed 33 entities from its Unverified List -- including Chinese technology companies and universities -- after it was able to successfully complete end-use checks. The entities include 27 based in China, two in Pakistan and one each in Indonesia, Singapore, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. The agency also removed two Russian entities from the UVL because it placed both on the more restrictive Entity List last year.

The Bureau of Industry and Security made several changes to the Export Administration Regulations this week to align its controls with decisions made at the multilateral Nuclear Suppliers Group in 2019 and 2022. The amendments, outlined in a final rule effective Aug. 18, revised five existing Export Control Classification Numbers under the Commerce Control List to alter or clarify the scope of certain controls and make technical fixes to other ECCNs.

The Bureau of Industry and Security clarified rules surrounding two deemed export scenarios in a new advisory opinion issued in June and released publicly this week. The opinion said U.S.-based subsidiaries are allowed to release certain controlled technologies to their foreign parent companies’ employees -- when they are on temporary assignment in the U.S. -- if the American subsidiary already has an export license to ship the item to its parent company. BIS also said the U.S. subsidiary can use its export license to ship covered items to its parent company if the items were developed by employees on temporary assignment in the U.S.

The Bureau of Industry and Security last week expanded the scope of its nuclear-related export controls on China and Macau, saying the change was necessary to impose tighter license requirements on items that could “contribute to nuclear activities of concern.” The Nuclear Regulatory Commission also suspended a general license that had authorized exports of certain nuclear items for nuclear end uses in China.

Citing a Financial Times report that Chinese artificial intelligence developers are evading controls on advanced semiconductors by using cloud services, members of the House introduced a bill to stop those practices, called Closing Loopholes for the Overseas Use and Development of Artificial Intelligence (CLOUD AI). The bill was introduced last month, and its text published this week.

The State Department this week announced penalties on one person and four entities and their subsidiaries for illegal transfers under the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act. The agency in a notice said the parties transferred items subject to multilateral control lists that contribute to weapons proliferation or missile production. The State Department barred them from making certain purchases of items controlled on the U.S. Munitions List and by the Arms Export Control Act and will suspend any current export licenses used by the entities. The agency also will bar them from receiving new export licenses for any goods subject to the Export Administration Regulations. The restrictions will remain in place for two years from the July 19 effective date.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, in a July opinion, reversed a California district court's decision acquitting Yi-Chi Shih, an employee at China-based firm Chengdu RML, of conspiracy to violate export control laws via his export of semiconductors to China. Judges Andrew Hurwitz and Ryan Nelson said "a rational factfinder could find that the exported [monolithic microwave integrated circuits] were not exempt from the [Export Administration Regulations] as fundamental research."

The Bureau of Industry and Security this week renewed its temporary denial order for a Venezuela-based cargo airline after saying it continues to try to violate U.S. export restrictions and the terms of the TDO. BIS said Empresa de Transporte Aereocargo del Sur, also known as Aerocargo del Sur Transportation or Emtrasur, has demonstrated "continued disregard" for U.S. export controls.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla, introduced a bill this week that could lead to new export controls on certain U.S. “genetic technology” destined to China. The Stopping Genetic Monitoring by China Act would add various types of “genetic sampling and testing kits, analytical technology, and software” to the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Commerce Control List, including:

The Bureau of Industry and Society last week issued guidance for license applicants seeking to export medical-related items to Russia, Belarus or certain occupied regions of Ukraine, outlining best practices for submitting applications and what information should be included. BIS urged exporters to “provide all the necessary information when the application is first submitted” so the agency can “promptly analyze the proposed scope of the transactions” before submitting it for interagency review, and the agency detailed what types of applications may lead to delays.