New Zealand is seeking public comments and proposals on ways to strengthen its export control regime, it said last week. The country is specifically considering how to address "contemporary and future proliferation challenges," which could lead to new export controls on intangible technology transfers, such as military-related teaching and joint research, "which are increasingly targeted by proliferators to gain knowledge."

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The lead sponsor in the House on a Russia sanctions and secondary sanctions bill said that negotiations are still ongoing between the two chambers on the final language of the bill.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control and Chicago-based private equity firm IPI Partners reached a nearly $11.5 million settlement to resolve accusations that the firm violated sanctions against Russia through its business dealings involving a designated Russian oligarch.

A proposal to require U.S. manufacturers of advanced AI chips to make their products available to American firms before selling them to China is unlikely to make it into the final FY 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), but it could advance later as stand-alone legislation, a key lawmaker said Dec. 2.

European Parliament members urged the EU last week to impose new sanctions on Tanzanian authorities for violence against protesters and on Iranian officials for the "systemic suppression and escalating persecution" of Iran’s Baha’i community.

The U.K. in September reached a 620,000 pound (about $820,000) settlement with a British exporter for illegal exports of military goods, the country’s Export Control Joint Unit said Dec. 1. The agency didn’t release more information. ECJU said it offers settlements in cases where the breach was inadvertent or “due to weaknesses in internal controls,” or where the exporter voluntarily disclosed the violation.

China is beginning a sunset review of its antidumping duties on imports of polyphenylene sulfide from the U.S., Japan, South Korea and Malaysia, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said Nov. 30, according to an unofficial translation. The measures, which were scheduled to expire at the end of November, have imposed tariffs between 23.3% and 220.9% across the four countries exporting polyphenylene sulfide, which Beijing said is a “high-performance engineering thermoplastic” used in the textile, auto, aerospace and electronics industries. China said it will continue to impose the duties during the sunset review period, which should last one year. Comments are due to the ministry within 20 days.

The Trump administration intends to address sanctions in a plan it is preparing to counter violence against Christians in Nigeria, a State Department official told the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa Nov. 20.

Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, reintroduced a bill Nov. 20 that would authorize the president to sanction foreign individuals and companies that are most responsible for exacerbating climate change and deforestation.