Among those sanctioned was Black Diamond Petroleum Derivatives, a Sana’a, Yemen-based company that facilitates oil sales and payments, and Star Plus Yemen, a Hudaydah, Yemen-based company that ...

BIS is drafting a rule to remove certain Syria controls and hopes to publish it in the "fairly near future,” Tim Mooney, acting director of the BIS Regulatory Policy Division, said during a June 10 ...

The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned several people with ties to drug trafficking in Guyana, Colombia and Venezuela, including Mark Cromwell, Himnauth Sawh, Randolph Duncan, Paul ...

China defended itself again this week against accusations from the EU, the U.S. and others that Beijing is withholding exports of critical minerals and other rare earths (see 2505300002), saying it ...

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., warned Nvidia and other U.S. chip firms last week that they will face penalties if they send advanced AI chips to China. "Keeping advanced AI chips out of the hands of the ...

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 ...

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., is a longtime free-trade advocate, and she is befuddled by the administration's concern that foreign unfair trade practices and state-sponsored overproduction are ...

Josh Hodges, former national security adviser to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Chris Slevin, chief of staff to Biden administration Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, have been appointed to ...

Former senior DOJ official Matthew McKenzie has joined defense contractor RTX as director and counsel for global trade, he announced on LinkedIn. McKenzie left DOJ this month after working at the ...

President Donald Trump last week signed an executive order aimed at reducing criminal enforcement of federal regulations, but it appears to carve out laws related to national security and defense.

Reps. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., and Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif., introduced a bill May 7 that would require the administration to write a report to Congress on Hong Kong’s role in export control and sanctions ...

All 24 members of the House Select Committee on China urged the Trump administration May 6 to consider adding Chinese robotics company Unitree to the Bureau of Industry and Security's Entity List and ...