Following up on questions he asked Alan Estevez -- the Biden administration's nominee for Under Secretary for Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce -- about general export control policies relating to China, the Entity List, and the companies Huawei and Honor during the nomination

As we reported [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/to-list-or-not-to-list-biden-administration-faces-dilemma-on-chinese-phone-company-with-former-ties-to-huawei/] several weeks ago, the Biden administration is divided over whether to add Chinese smartphone maker Honor Device Co. Ltd. to an export blacklist on the basis of its past connections with Chinese tech company Huawei (the issue also came up at a

At the March 31 and April 1 meeting of the WTO's Council for Trade in Goods, for which minutes have just recently been circulated by the WTO [https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?filename=q:/G/C/M139.pdf&Open=True] , China raised an

Both the U.S. Senate and House are considering legislation that attempts to push Central and Eastern European countries away from using Chinese telecoms equipment such as that of Huawei or ZTE. The Senate bill was just recently introduced; the House bill was introduced in May and  could undergo a

As we reported [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/fcc-program-for-removal-and-replacement-of-chinese-telecoms-equipment-moves-forward/] in July, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has moved ahead with a plan for reimbursing telecoms companies for the cost of removing, replacing, and disposing of communications equipment that "poses an unacceptable risk to national security," targeting equipment

The Biden administration is divided over whether to add Chinese smartphone maker Honor Device Co. Ltd. to an export blacklist due to past connections with Chinese tech company Huawei. This case illustrates the difficulties in drawing lines related to national security, as the United States continues to refine its export

During a hearing at the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on September 8, a U.S. Commerce Department official said that multilateral cooperation is more important than unilateral use of export controls, especially in the context of the “foreign direct product rule.” Speaking on the Administration Views