Inside Trade

December 7, 2024

News analysis

New license exception could herald new multilateral approach to export controls

By Brett Fortnam  / October 10, 2024 at 6:30 AM
A license exception the Bureau of Industry and Security has created for countries that have equivalent export controls on certain emerging technologies could be the basis for a new approach to multilateral controls, according to industry sources and analysts. BIS in September levied export controls on certain quantum, semiconductor and additive manufacturing technologies and in doing so created a license exception available only to countries that have, as determined by the U.S., equivalent controls on those technologies. The Commerce Department...

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