As we reported [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/to-list-or-not-to-list-biden-administration-faces-dilemma-on-chinese-phone-company-with-former-ties-to-huawei/] several weeks ago, the Biden administration is divided over whether to add Chinese smartphone maker Honor Device Co. Ltd. to an export blacklist on the basis of its past connections with Chinese tech company Huawei (the issue also came up at a

A Hong Kong textile company has gone to U.S. court to challenge its inclusion on the "Entity List [https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/lists-of-parties-of-concern/entity-list] " maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce. While its request for a preliminary injunction was recently rejected by

The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing [https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/09/14/2021/nomination-hearing] today in which it considered the nominations of Alan Estevez and Thea Kendler for key positions at the Bureau of Industry and Security at the Commerce

In a July 12 letter [http://docs.chinatrademonitor.com/mccaul-ymtc.pdf] to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) argued that Chinese semiconductor maker Yangtze Memory Technologies Company (YMTC) should be included on the Commerce Department's Entity List [https://www.bis.doc.