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The Commerce Department published its spring 2023 regulatory agenda for the Bureau of Industry and Security and the Census Bureau, including new rules that will add more entities to the Entity List and finalize new export filing requirements.
The State Department’s recently published spring 2023 regulatory agenda continues to mention rules that will update export controls for items on the U.S. Munitions List and make other changes to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
Export Compliance Daily is providing readers with the top stories from last week in case you missed them. You can find any article by searching for the title or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference number.
The U.S. is currently drafting a list of technologies that will be covered by its new defense trade authorization, which will be used to expedite defense technology transfers under the Australia-U.K.-U.S. partnership. Although the new mechanism won’t require any new authorities from Congress, it’s designed to eventually be supplanted by broader revisions to U.S. defense trade regulations, the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls said this week.
House lawmakers submitted a host of proposed export control- and sanctions-related amendments as part of the FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, including measures that could ease defense technology sharing restrictions, harmonize the Entity List with certain U.S. sanctions and investment restrictions and place new export control requirements on items destined to China and Iran. Other amendments could lead to new sanctions on Chinese technology companies and government officials, add the USDA to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., establish a new sanctions coordination office in the State Department and more.
A new rule change by the Bureau of Industry and Security will subject a broader range of chemical mixtures to declaration requirements, including for export or import. The revisions, outlined in a final rule that takes effect July 3, lowers the concentration threshold level at which mixtures containing certain controlled chemicals are subject to the declaration requirements. The change brings the U.S. Chemical Weapons Convention Regulations “into further alignment” with guidelines adopted by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in 2009, which established the lower concentration threshold limit for certain chemicals.
The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls added a new “Renewal Fee Details” function to its online application system, the agency recently announced. The new function will allow certain users of the Defense Export Control and Compliance System to view their registration expiration date, license period start and end dates, their number of licenses and more information “consolidated into the new Renewal Fee Details window.” Users will also be able to download a .csv file “of all licenses considered when calculating the renewal fee charged by DDTC,” along with other new functionalities. Questions should be directed to PM_DDTCProjectteam@state.gov.
The Department of Defense recently released a new set of recommendations designed to speed up military goods exports under its Foreign Military Sales program, an initiative long requested by defense companies. DOD said the recommendations highlight “key FMS pressure points” and are aimed at “breaking historical inefficiencies in the United States' transfer of defense articles and services to foreign allies and partners.”
The State Department announced debarments against 10 people convicted of violating U.S. export control laws. The debarments, which will be imposed starting June 15, target Maria Guadalupe Almendarez, Murat Bukey (see 2303220054), Kevin Jerome Cassidy, Usama Darwich Hamade (see 2007210014), Andrew Scott Pierson, Ihor Radionov, Joe Sery (see 2206100018), Arif Ugur (see 2212150082), Tian Min Wu (see 2212020039) and Hany Veletanlic (see 2001300016). All 10 are “generally ineligible” to participate in activity controlled by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations for three years following their dates of convictions. At the end of that period, they must apply to be reinstated from their debarment before engaging in ITAR activities.