Eric Longnecker, a longtime senior Bureau of Industry and Security official who most recently served as the agency's deputy assistant secretary for technology security, left BIS last week, he ...

Sens. John Curtis, R-Utah, and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., introduced a bill April 8 that would require the administration to write a report to Congress on Hong Kong’s role in export control and sanctions ...

Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., who chairs a House task force that is looking at ways to improve how the government handles arms sales (see 2501220086), introduced a bill May 23 that would raise the ...

Emily Benson, who has worked for the Commerce Department since July as a senior adviser for trade and technology policy issues, is leaving the agency to join an advisory firm focused on geopolitics ...

Kathleen Palma, former vice president of global trade controls at Boeing, has joined American semiconductor company Applied Materials as vice president of global trade, she announced on LinkedIn. She ...

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins is planning to visit six countries in the coming months as part of an "aggressive" effort to "expand markets and boost American agricultural exports," the agency said ...

The State Department appointed Timothy Betts acting deputy assistant secretary for the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, according to DDTC’s personnel page, which was updated this month. Betts, ...

Ted Dean, former trade adviser to former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, has joined DGA Group’s China practice, the consulting firm announced. Dean led Commerce Department activities in the U.S.-EU ...

The U.S. this week sanctioned a Chinese refinery and three port terminal operators for their role in buying Iranian oil. It also sanctioned multiple companies, vessels and ship captains responsible ...

should approach the “interplay between EU sanctions and US sanctions” against Syria, saying that EU parties “are not required to comply with US sanctions. They are only required to comply with EU ...

The Bureau of Industry and Security approved more than a combined $100 billion worth of export licenses for shipments to Huawei and Chinese top chipmaker SMIC from November 9, 2020, through April 20, ...

Ola Craft, who left the government earlier this year as director of strategic trade and nonproliferation with the National Security Council, has joined Lowenstein Sandler as a senior trade adviser in ...