Reps. Max Miller, R-Ohio, and Jefferson Shreve, R-Ind., introduced a bill Dec. 1 that would broaden the authority of the Bureau of Industry and Security to place companies on its Entity List.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, speaking at a business event Dec. 4, said that the U.S. doesn't want to confront China in concert with allies right now.
The Bureau of Industry and Security again renewed a temporary denial order for Nordwind Airlines after saying the Russian airline continues to illegally operate aircraft on flights into and out of Russia. Nordwind has "engaged in a pattern of repeated, ongoing and/or continuous apparent violations" of the Export Administration Regulations and previous denial orders, BIS said, noting that it has operated several recent flights to and from Russia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The agency renewed the order for one year from Dec. 5.
U.S. semiconductor-related export controls against China have been "incredibly successful," mostly because they have forced Beijing to expend more resources trying to advance its domestic chip industry, argued Stephen Brooks, a professor at Dartmouth College who focuses on economics and security.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was critical last week of U.S. policies that he said are restricting the company from selling its advanced chips in China and pushed back on claims that Nvidia AI processors are being smuggled into the country.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved several sanctions and export control bills Dec. 3, including the Sanctions Lists Harmonization Act, which would require a review of whether individuals or entities included on certain sanctions lists should be included on other sanctions lists (see 2507070022).
The Council of the European Union on Dec. 4 extended its human rights sanctions list for one year, pushing the restrictions to Dec. 8, 2026. The sanctions currently apply to 135 individuals and 37 entities.
The U.K. added three Russian intelligence officers and the Russian intelligence agency to its Russia sanctions list on Dec. 4. Vladimir Lipchenko, Yuriy Sizov and Denis Smolyaninov were sanctioned by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation for coordinating "sabotage operations in Ukraine." The intelligence agency is the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, known as GRU.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week renewed and revised the language in a general license that authorizes certain transactions involving Lukoil retail service stations located outside Russia.
The Office of the Federal Register published a correction this week to a Commerce Control List that appeared in the most recent annual revision of the Code of Federal Regulations. It fixes an error in the language that describes certain "materials" controlled in the CCL, including metals and alloys.