The Commerce Department should conduct a “comprehensive evaluation” of the export controls it has imposed on the U.S. semiconductor industry in recent years to determine whether they are achieving their goal of protecting national security, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said.
The congressionally mandated National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology recommended in a report this month that lawmakers pass legislation to prevent U.S. outbound investment from supporting China’s development of biotechnology that could harm national security.
Chinese electric vehicle battery producer Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL) is trying to get itself taken off the Defense Department's Section 1260H list of Chinese military companies, since it believes its listing was a mistake, a company spokesperson said late April 18.
House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar, R-Mich., urged JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America on April 17 to stop participating in the upcoming initial public offering of Chinese electric vehicle battery producer Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL), which the Defense Department recently placed on its Section 1260H list of Chinese military companies (see 2501060024).
Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., urged the Trump administration April 18 to reverse its decision to remove Hungarian official Antal Rogan from a Treasury Department sanctions list (see 2504170045).
The House Select Committee on China said in a new report that the Bureau of Industry and Security should receive additional funding to improve its export control capabilities amid a growing workload.
The U.S. government, which provided limited sanctions relief to Syria in January, is examining options to further ease those measures, such as through waivers and licenses (see 2501060034), the State Department told Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in a letter she publicly released April 16.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who introduced a bill in January to prohibit AI technology exports to China (see 2502030031), said April 14 that he believes recent news about China’s AI activities might give his legislation a lift.
The leaders of the House Select Committee on China said April 16 that they have asked U.S.-based Nvidia whether and how the company’s chips powered the recent development of an advanced artificial intelligence model by Chinese startup DeepSeek despite U.S. export restrictions.
House Select Committee on China Chairman Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., and Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif., reintroduced a bill April 14 that could lead to additional sanctions on China for supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.