China’s recently published rules to further implement its anti-foreign sanctions law makes clear that Beijing could take legal action against anyone helping to implement a foreign sanction aimed at China, Wilmer Hale said in a recent client alert.
China’s Ministry of Commerce this month issued new FAQs about its dual-use export controls, including guidance on how exporters should determine whether an item is subject to China’s controls.
Three senators introduced a bill April 9 that would authorize the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to review greenfield and brownfield investments in the U.S. by China and other “foreign countries of concern.”
House lawmakers reintroduced bills April 9 that would restrict oil exports to China and expedite liquefied natural gas exports to allies.
Sens. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Mark Warner, D-Va., introduced a bill April 10 aimed at preventing the smuggling of U.S. artificial intelligence chips into China.
The Council of the European Union on April 14 sanctioned seven individuals and two entities under its Iran sanctions regime for their role in arbitrarily detaining EU "mono and dual nationals on spurious grounds" and executing members of ethnic and religious minorities, the council said. The entities are the Shiraz Central Prison and the First Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz. The individuals are members of the judiciary, including two involved with the prison system.
Seven Senate Republicans led by Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., called on the Commerce Department April 11 to replace its “burdensome” rule to regulate the global diffusion of advanced AI chips and models.
Clete Willems, a former National Security Council official and Akin Gump trade lawyer, is joining Netflix as its chief global affairs officer, he said on LinkedIn. Willems served in the first Trump administration as a senior international economics official and sherpa to the Group of 7 and Group of 20.
World Trade Organization members confirmed the appointment of Nigeria's Adamu Mohammed Abdulhamid to serve as chair of the special session of the Council for Trade in Services, the council's "negotiating arm," the WTO announced. Abdulhamid will lead discussions to achieve a "progressively higher level of liberalization, as reflected in members' specific commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in Services," it said.
The European Commission on April 11 extended its antidumping duties on monosodium glutamate (MSG) from China to cover imports from Malaysia, following an anti-circumvention investigation on Malaysian MSG. The commission said the investigation found that the exports had "increased significantly" following the imposition of duties on Chinese MSG due to duty evasion. The move imposes 39.7% AD on Malaysian MSG. The commission said it uncovered assembly operations with Chinese raw materials to which less than 25% value was added, along with transshipment of Chinese MSG via Malaysia.