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Elections matter, and the Biden Administration is quickly
putting its stamp on US trade policies in ways that will have a
significant impact on global supply chains. We identify several
trends below.
CBP Forced Labor Enforcement
The Biden Administration is expected to step-up the US Customs
& Border Protection ( CBP ) use of authority to issue
withhold release orders ( WROs ) that block the
importation into the United States of good produced with forced
labor unless an importer provides sufficient evidence
that the goods were not made with forced labor. While China
United States: BIS implements the rescission of Sudanâs designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism
On January 14, 2021, the US Commerce Departmentâs Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amended the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to remove Sudanâs designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism (SST) (the âAmendmentsâ). The Amendments implement the rescission of Sudan as an SST as announced by the Trump Administration in December 2020 by removing Anti-Terrorism (AT) and related controls on Sudan, which had remained in force following the US Governmentâs revocation of comprehensive sanctions in October 2017.
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On January 14, 2021, the US Commerce Departmentâs Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amended theÂ
President Joe Biden s administration has added to its hard line on the Shenzhen tech company by tightening up restrictions on suppliers who sell components like semiconductors, antennas and batteries for Huawei s 5G equipment.
Walk it through: Biden may be dismantling a lot of the past four years, but he s still keeping Chinese tech at arm s length.
(Source: The White House)
And the measures, which come into force this week, go further than the confusing rules which followed the Trump administration s decision to require firms to seek government licenses to sell US intellectual property to Huawei.
Entity List
Trump in May 2019 added Huawei to the Entity List, a trade blacklist run by the US Commerce Department s Bureau of Industry and Security.
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U.S. officials have continued to use a range of policy tools to apply pressure on the military leadership of Myanmar (also known as Burma) in response to the military coup in the country and escalating violence against peaceful protestors. These moves have continued to follow a step-by-step approach, with important export control and sanctions additions thus far in March 2021.
New Export Controls
On March 4, 2021, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced new export controls and Entity List additions for Myanmar.
First, BIS added Myanmar to the “military end user” and “military end use” restrictions under 15 CFR 744.21, which were previously in place for China, Russia, and Venezuela. This imposes a license requirement for exports, reexports, or transfers of items listed in Supplement No. 2 to Part 744 of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) where there is knowledge t
The Biden administration has informed some suppliers to China’s Huawei Technologies Co. of tighter conditions on previously approved export licenses, prohibiting items for use in or with 5G devices, according to people familiar with the move.