In an announcement [https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2021/12/commerce-acts-deter-misuse-biotechnology-other-us-technologies-peoples] of a final rule to be published in the federal register [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/12/17/2021-27406/addition-of-certain-entities-to-the-entity-list-and-revision-of-an-entry-on-the-entity-list] on December 17, the Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Commerce Department said it

As we reported here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/commerce-department-initiates-section-232-investigation-on-neodymium-magnets/] , in late September the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) initiated an investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/19/1862] "to determine the effects on

In an announcement [https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2021/11/commerce-lists-entities-involved-support-prc-military-quantum-computing] of a final rule published in the federal register [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/11/26/2021-25808/addition-of-entities-and-revision-of-entries-on-the-entity-list-and-addition-of-entity-to-the] on November 26, the Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Commerce Department said it would add

Five Republican Senators – Tom Cotton (R-AR), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) -- sent a letter [https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-colleagues-call-on-secretary-raimondo-to-blacklist-companies-that-provide-ai-technology-to-the-chinese-military] to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on November 15, arguing that the U.S. government "has done little to

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing [https://www.finance.senate.gov/hearings/hearing-to-consider-the-nomination-of-lisa-w-wang-of-the-district-of-columbia-to-be-an-assistant-secretary-of-commerce-vice-jeffrey-kessler] today on the nominations of two Commerce Department officials: Maria Louise Lago as Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, and Lisa Wang as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance. The questions from the

As we reported here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/u-s-solar-companies-argue-that-chinese-economic-coercion-justifies-keeping-identities-secret-in-ad-cvd-proceeding/] , on August 16 a group of U.S. companies called the American Solar Manufacturers Against Chinese Circumvention (A-SMACC) filed anti-circumvention petitions related to AD/CVD orders that had been imposed in December 2012 on photovoltaic cells from China. The Commerce Department

As we reported here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/commerce-department-initiates-section-232-investigation-on-neodymium-magnets/] , in late September the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) initiated an investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/19/1862] "to determine the effects on