China has suspended port fees for U.S. ships and sanctions on five U.S. subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Marine Corporation in response to the Trump administration's decision last week to drop ship fees for Chinese vessels and slash tariffs on Chinese goods (see 2511030005).
The U.S. has given Syria a new 180-day sanctions waiver under the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 to help the war-torn country continue its rebuilding effort, the Office of Foreign Assets Control said Nov. 10.
China suspended export controls for a year on certain key critical minerals and other dual-use items that were banned from being shipped to the U.S. for military uses, China's Ministry of Commerce said in a Nov. 9 press release. The ban on exports of gallium, germanium, antimony and “superhard materials” was originally instated in December 2024 (see 2412030022). The move comes amid a thaw in the trade conflict between the U.S. and China after talks between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping at the end of last month (see 2510300003).
The Bureau of Industry and Security released a notice Nov. 10 officially suspending its Affiliates Rule for one year, as expected (see 2510310020). The stay of the rule, which applied Entity List prohibitions to unlisted entities owned at least 50% by companies on the Entity List, takes effect immediately.
The Bureau of Industry and Security released a final rule Nov. 10 removing Chinese affiliates of Arrow Electronics from the Entity List, effective immediately.
The Australian Sanctions Office released eight advisory notes Nov. 6 to "assist the regulated community understand their sanctions risks," the agency said in a press release. Topics include the risks associated with exporting drones to Russia and the cyber risks of North Korean IT workers to Australian businesses.
A bipartisan group of 12 senators led by Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., introduced a resolution Nov. 6 welcoming the Trump administration’s recent decision to sanction two major Russian oil companies to pressure Moscow to seek peace with Ukraine (see 2510220050).
Sens. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., introduced a resolution Nov. 6 calling for the U.S. government to continue denying China access to advanced chips and chipmaking equipment to maintain the American advantage in AI.
Eight Republican senators told President Donald Trump on Nov. 6 that they applaud his decision to withhold the most advanced U.S. computing chips from China, including Nvidia’s Blackwell (see 2511030031).
House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., criticized the Trump administration Nov. 6 for removing the U.S. arms embargo on Cambodia, saying the decision ignored “broad bipartisan concern about the Cambodian government's human rights abuses and its deepening ties to Beijing.”