The Trump administration may be beginning to favor the use of trade policy tools like tariffs to replace sanctions to compel foreign policy, researchers said on a podcast hosted by the Center for a New American Security last week.
House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar, R-Mich., said Jan. 28 that the U.S. should place stronger export controls on technologies critical to the infrastructure of an advanced new Chinese artificial intelligence model.
Kelley Drye added four attorneys from Sandler Travis to its export controls and economic sanctions team, the firm announced. The new additions are partner Kristine Pirnia, special counsel Catherine Cayce, associates Narges Kahvazadeh and Sanam Bhalla, along with non-attorney export controls specialist Molly Stevens.
The Council of the European Union on Jan. 27 extended its sanctions on Russia for an additional six months, pushing them to July 31. The measures include various sectoral restrictions, including those on "trade, finance, energy, technology and dual-use goods, industry, transport and luxury goods," and also include a ban on the import of oil and petroleum products from Russia.
The U.K. and Canada announced coordinated sanctions this week against people and entities tied to human rights violations committed by the Alexander Lukashenko regime in Belarus as well as the regime’s support of Russia. The U.K. is targeting several senior Belarusian officials and entities working in the country’s defense sector. The Canadian sanctions target three Belarusian state organizations, nine entities that produced or supplied military equipment for Russia, and several senior executives working for those entities.
Hours after President Donald Trump threatened to impose sanctions, tariffs and visa restrictions against Colombia for declining to accept a plane of deported migrants from the U.S., the White House said Colombia reversed course and agreed to the “unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens.”
A new report from the National Bureau of Asian Research analyzes how Beijing may seek to use its export control authorities and how those moves will impact U.S. supply chains.
Years after the U.S. first imposed trade restrictions against Huawei, the government’s strategy to restrain the Chinese technology company remains unclear, technology policy experts said this week.
Although the Supreme Court last week granted the U.S. government’s motion to lift a nationwide injunction on the Corporate Transparency Act's new beneficial ownership information reporting requirements, the Treasury Department said it’s still blocked from enforcing the new rules because they remain blocked by a separate court.
President Donald Trump last week revoked the Biden administration’s 2023 executive order on artificial intelligence, which could have ramifications for recent AI-related export controls issued by the Bureau of Industry and Security.