The National Turkey Federation and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., co-chair of the Senate India Caucus, announced this month that the U.S. has begun exporting turkey products to India thanks to a September 2023 trade agreement that called for the South Asian country to reduce tariffs on several food items, including frozen turkey (see 2309080049). The first shipment, which was provided by Virginia turkey farmers, recently left the U.S. from the Port of Virginia, the announcement says.
The Bureau of Industry and Security is extending the public comment period for an information collection involving the Chemical Weapons Convention provisions in the Export Administration Regulations. The collection describes the purpose of the CWC, U.S. reporting obligations and information on certain end-use certificates. Comments were due Oct. 28, but BIS said it’s allowing for another 30 days (see 2408270015).
The U.S., Australia and the U.K. signed a “landmark” agreement to use each other’s hypersonic flight testing facilities and share technical information to develop, test and evaluate hypersonic systems and technologies, the Pentagon announced this month. The agreement was signed under Pillar II of the Australia-U.K.-U.S. (AUKUS) partnership, which aims to reduce trade barriers and boost collaboration among the three nations around sensitive defense technologies.
The State Department this week announced penalties on three people and two entities and their subsidiaries for illegal transfers under the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act.
The founder and former CEO of a California-based freight forwarding company pleaded guilty on Nov. 26 to conspiring to violate export laws by sending goods to Chinese companies on the Commerce Department's Entity List, DOJ announced.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ben Cardin, D-Md., urged the Biden administration last week to try to expand and better enforce the U.N. Security Council's arms embargo on war-torn Sudan.
The chairs of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China urged U.S. technology companies Microsoft and Google Nov. 22 to explain why they reportedly funded Chinese tech firms that assisted in censorship and police surveillance in China, including of repressed minority groups. The tweet by Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., and Sen. Jeffrey Merkley, D-Ore., seeks “assurances” that investments by Microsoft and Google are “not abetting human rights abuses in China.” Microsoft and Google had no immediate comment on the tweet.
The former chief of staff to then-U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has been chosen for USTR in Donald Trump's second administration.
The Census Bureau emailed tips on how to address the most frequent messages generated this month in the Automated Export System.
The U.S. Helsinki Commission, also known as the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, plans to hold a hearing Dec. 5 to examine how Belarus has aided Russia’s war against Ukraine through sanctions evasion and other means.