The Bureau of Industry and Security hasn't yet made a decision on whether to move forward with export controls on automated peptide synthesizers after proposing the restrictions in April last year (see 2304190060), a Commerce Department official said this week.
The Bureau of Industry and Security is still developing a proposed rule to prevent sophisticated hacking tools and expertise from being exported to foreign governments that spy on their own citizens, a Commerce Department official said March 27.
Businesses are relieved by the quasi-truce between China and the U.S., consultants and lawyers said on a trade panel last week, but those in the tech sectors expect more restrictions are coming in the near future.
Behrouz Mokhtari of McLean, Virginia, and Tehran pleaded guilty Jan. 9 to two conspiracies to violate U.S. sanctions on Iran "by engaging in business activities on behalf of Iranian entities" without getting a license from the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, DOJ announced Jan. 9. Mokhtari will forfeit money, property and assets obtained from the schemes, including a Campbell, California, home, and a money judgment of over $2.8 million, DOJ said. The defendant faces a maximum of five years in prison for each of the two conspiracy counts.
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The Bureau of Industry and Security is pushing its annual update conference until next year, the agency announced on its website. The conference was originally scheduled for Nov. 28-30 in Washington but now will be held March 27-29, 2024, BIS said. Existing registrations will remain valid for the new conference dates, but attendees and exhibitors may request refunds.
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Many companies are grappling with how best to comply with the Commerce Department’s foreign direct product rule, “one of the key areas” still “unaddressed” by the agency’s regulations and guidance, said Kim Strosnider, a trade lawyer with Covington. She said Commerce’s compliance expectations for the FDP rule are rising despite due diligence challenges faced by industry, pointing to the agency’s record $300 million penalty against Seagate Technology in April (see 2305080029 and 2304190071).
The Bureau of Industry and Security is considering tweaking regulatory language that calls on exporters to conduct a five-year review of activities that preceded their voluntary self-disclosures. The change could make it so the language only applies to more serious disclosures, said the top BIS export enforcement official, Maththew Axelrod, and would represent another step in the agency’s effort to draw more BIS and industry resources toward addressing significant violations as opposed to minor or technical ones.