At a CSIS event yesterday, Alan Estevez, Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), discussed a number of issues on export control enforcement as it relates to China, offering updates on efforts to cooperate with allies and on how new regulations announced last

Earlier this month, a U.S. Commerce Department official spoke at a conference and briefly explained the role of new export control rules to be applied to advanced technology for sale to China.

At a think tank event last week, a Commerce Department official offered comments and explanations on the recent decision to implement additional export controls on semiconductors and supercomputer products. With regard to a "China review," he noted that it will only be completed "when the Chinese change

The U.S. government is ratcheting up its export controls on China, as it announced sweeping export restrictions that would curb China's ability to access or produce advanced chips and supercomputers.

The U.S. government has added 31 more Chinese entities to a blacklist under which a license will be required for some U.S. exports.

Last week, the Biden administration announced that a U.S. Commerce Department investigation "found that [Neodymium-iron-boron] magnet imports threaten national security," and that President Biden agreed with that determination. The Biden administration said it would take a number of actions to address the threat, but tariffs and quotas

Republican Congressman Mike Flood of Nebraska sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo expressing concern about "the reported use of Huawei hardware in U.S. cell towers" in Nebraska, and particularly that cell towers "within a certain range of military installations such as missile silos and