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:
The Bureau of Industry and Security is extending a public comment period for an information collection involving Section 232 investigation requests. BIS said that, after receiving a request, it investigates the “effects of imports of specific commodities” on U.S. national security, including by distributing surveys, and may provide those findings to the president for possible adjustments to import tariffs. The collection helps BIS “account for the public burden associated with the surveys distributed to determine the impact on national security.” The agency had requested public comments in April and is now allowing for another 30 days of comments.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has sent a rule for interagency review that could propose new import restrictions on certain Chinese connected vehicle parts. BIS sent the proposed rule to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Aug. 20. An agency official in July said BIS was planning to release the rule sometime this month (see 2407170043 and 2408050044), building on an advance notice of proposed rulemaking released in February (see 2402290034).
The Bureau of Industry and Security has further defined the scope of its upcoming proposed rule restricting imports of certain Chinese connected vehicle parts, Reuters reported this week.
The Bureau of Industry and Security plans to release a rule next month to propose new restrictions on certain Chinese connected vehicle imports, including certain software, sensors and cameras used in those cars, said Alan Estevez, BIS undersecretary. The rule, which would build on an advance notice of proposed rulemaking released by the agency in February (see 2402290034), is expected “sometime in August,” Estevez said during an event this week hosted by the Aspen Institute.
The Bureau of Industry and Security is preparing to launch a survey of the pharmaceutical industry to gain a better understanding of the “supply chain network that underpins U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities,” the agency said in a July 9 news release. BIS will survey hundreds of U.S. manufacturers, distributors, suppliers and customers involved in the U.S. “active pharmaceutical ingredient industrial base” in part to identify supply chain vulnerabilities and better plan for potential supply shortages. The Department of Health and Human Services requested the survey.