Ian Cohen

2 weeks ago | exportcompliancedaily.com | Ian Cohen

Tim Mooney, acting director of the BIS Regulatory Policy Division, said the agency hasn’t published many rules since the start of the Trump administration because senior leadership was assessing “what lines up with their priorities.” But now that Undersecretary Jeffrey Kessler has been in place since March, BIS is “starting to get guidance in terms of what his priorities will be going forward, so there is actually a lot of regulatory activity going on,” Mooney said during a Regulations and...

2 weeks ago | exportcompliancedaily.com | Ian Cohen

“It's really scary to me. Either fix it or don’t,” Felice Laird, founder of trade compliance consultancy Export Strategies and a former Commerce Department official, said of the AI diffusion rule. “It just seems to be a difficult place to be legally,” she said during a Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee meeting this week.

2 weeks ago | exportcompliancedaily.com | Ian Cohen

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2 weeks ago | exportcompliancedaily.com | Ian Cohen

The agency is “definitely looking at” that, said Tim Mooney, acting director of the BIS Regulatory Policy Division. Mooney declined to describe the rule in detail, but he acknowledged it could apply stringent U.S. export license requirements to subsidiaries of certain parties on the Entity List. It also could be issued as an interim final rule, according to two people familiar with the matter, which could mean an abbreviated public comment period before the changes take effect (see 2505190014).

2 weeks ago | exportcompliancedaily.com | Ian Cohen

Kevin Hassett, director of the White House’s National Economic Council, said U.S. officials, in talks that began in London June 9, planned to push their Chinese counterparts to lift Chinese export restrictions over rare earths. Trump ordered Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Representative Jameison Greer to secure a “handshake” agreement from Chinese officials that they would lift the measures, Hassett said.