Commerce outlines business costs for compliance with ICT supply chain rule

The Commerce Department has released an analysis of the costs businesses could face in trying to comply with a controversial supply chain interim final rule for the information and communications technology sector, providing wide-ranging estimates depending on different business considerations. The rule named China a “foreign adversary” and laid the groundwork for Commerce to ban transactions involving ICT and services from China and others. The “ Regulatory Impact Analysis ” breaks down administrative costs into four areas: learning about the...