New license exception could herald new multilateral approach to export controls

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...