Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, introduced a bill to prevent the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, or ATF, from blocking the import of guns and ammunition.
Philip Luck is leaving his role as the State Department’s deputy chief economist to become the new Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the think tank announced this week. Luck will focus on “issues at the intersection of economics and national security planning,” CSIS said, including U.S. technology competition and supply chain resilience. He will replace outgoing chair Bill Reinsch, a former Bureau of Industry and Security official during the Bill Clinton administration, who will continue to do research at CSIS.
Auto sector manufacturers and importers will have 425 days to cut Chinese software that enables automated driving systems or enables a vehicle to connect to the outside world at a frequency above 450 MHz from their supply chains, according to a final rule from the Bureau of Industry and Security set to be published Jan. 16.
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau has amended regulations governing some standards of fill of wine and distilled spirits as part of a broader effort to provide more flexibility and enable a wider range of container sizes, facilitate the movement of goods within domestic and international commence, and provide consumers with broader purchasing options, it said in a Federal Register notice.
China’s Foreign Ministry objected to a recent Bureau of Industry and Security rule that requested public comments on possible import restrictions for Chinese-made drones (see 2501020037), saying any new measures could further disrupt the two countries’ trade relations.
The Bureau of Industry and Security is asking for public comments about how BIS regulations on Chinese-made drones, or Chinese components in drones made elsewhere, should be focused, to mitigate the risk of Chinese sabotage or espionage.
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 Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau is issuing a final rule that establishes "American single malt whiskey" as meeting a standard of identity for the purpose of labeling distilled spirits produced in the U.S., the Treasury Department said a Federal Register notice.