The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative opened an investigation into Chinese manufacturing of legacy (or foundational) semiconductors, "including to the extent that they are incorporated as components into downstream products for critical industries like defense, automotive, medical devices, aerospace, telecommunications, and power generation and the electrical grid."
The Bureau of Industry and Security has submitted a rule for interagency review that would finalize its proposed import restrictions on connected vehicles from China (see 2409220001). BIS said it’s reviewing public comments on the proposal (see 2410290026) and is working to determine “the technologies and market participants most appropriate for regulation.” The agency sent the final rule to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Dec. 17.
The Court of International Trade on Dec. 19 declined to grant victory to G&H Diversified Manufacturing on the importer's claims that CBP previously, as part of its role in granting a Section 232 duty exclusion, already said the company's imports were subject to the exclusion. Judge Timothy Reif said open questions of fact still exist with regard to the extent of CBP's role in the exclusion process.
The Bureau of Industry and Security completed a round of interagency review for a rule that could lead to new import restrictions on certain drones and drone parts from China and other countries of concern.
Nearly half of U.S. companies surveyed by the Bureau of Industry and Security this year said they didn’t know whether their products contained any Chinese-made, mature-node semiconductors, BIS said in a summary of those survey results released Dec. 6.
The Bureau of Industry and Security is drafting an advance notice of proposed rulemaking that could lead to new import restrictions on certain drones and drone parts from China and other countries of concern.
Automakers, chipmakers and broad business groups asked the Bureau of Industry and Security to give their industries more time to adjust to new requirements to move supply chains out of China and report on what companies are in their connected vehicle supply chains.
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The U.S. will ban the import and sale of vehicles with hardware or software that facilitates communication to GPS satellites and drivers' cellphones, or software and hardware that allow driverless operation, if those goods come from China or Russia, under a notice of proposed rulemaking.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: