The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a final rule, effective January 25, 2011, which amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to implement several components of the November 2010 bilateral understanding between the U.S. and India on export control reform, including removing India’s defense and space-related entities from the Entity List, removing India from three country groups and adding it to one country group in the EAR.
The Bureau of Industry and Security announces that the Materials Technical Advisory Committee will hold a partially open meeting on February 10, 2011. The agenda for the open session includes a presentation on the High Performance Fiber Council, a report by the Composite Working Group and Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) Review Subgroup. The open session will be accessible via teleconference to 20 participants on a first come, first serve basis. Requests are due by February 3, 2011.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a final rule, effective January 18, 2011, which adds CSMC Technologies Corporation and its facilities to its list of validated end-users in China, and revises the VEU authorization for Advanced Micro Devices China, Inc. (AMD) by amending the list of buildings and updating the description of items eligible for export, reexport, or transfer (in-country) to its approved facilities.
In December 2010, the Bureau of Industry and Security issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) seeking comments on how the descriptions of items controlled on the Commerce Control List (CCL)1 could be more clear, positive, and “tiered,” in a manner consistent with the control criteria the Administration is developing as part of its export control reform effort.
In December 2010, the State Department issued and an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) requesting comments on revisions to make the USML positive and tiered, etc., and a proposed rule to revise Category VII of the U.S. Munitions List (tanks and military vehicles) to assign tiers and describe more precisely the defense articles therein.
In December 2010, the Bureau of Industry and Security issued a proposed rule to add a new License Exception Strategic Trade Authorization (STA) at 15 CFR 740.20 to allow exports, reexports and transfers (in-country) of specified items to destinations that pose little risk of unauthorized use of those items, subject to certain notification and statement requirements.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a final rule, effective January 7, 2011, which removes certain publicly available mass market encryption software and certain other specified publicly available encryption software in object code from the jurisdiction of the Export Administration Regulations. BIS also comments on the issue of public availability, “knowledge”, and “red flags.”
As part of the President’s export control reform initiative, the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) which (i) seeks public comment on revisions to the U.S. Munitions List that would make it a “positive list” of controlled defense articles, (ii) requests that the public “tier” defense articles based on the Administration’s three-tier control criteria1, and (iii) requests the public identify those current defense articles that the public believes do not fall within the scope of any of the criteria’s tiers.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a proposed rule which would add a new License Exception Strategic Trade Authorization (STA) at 15 CFR 740.20 to allow exports, reexports and transfers (in-country) of specified items to destinations that pose little risk of unauthorized use of those items, subject to certain notification and statement requirements.
As part of the President’s export control reform initiative, the Bureau of Industry and Security has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) seeking comments on how the descriptions of items controlled on the Commerce Control List (CCL)1 could be more clear, positive, and “tiered,” in a manner consistent with the control criteria the Administration is developing as part of its export control reform effort.