Tech groups urge Commerce to include export control work in IPEF

Several tech groups and companies are calling on the Commerce Department to use the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework to advance multilateral cooperation that leads to potentially harmonized export controls, according to comments submitted this week. Export controls were not one of the three pillars that Commerce last month requested comments on, even though it was one of seven potential IPEF modules listed in a document outlining administration talking points for the framework that Politico obtained in February. In its comment request,...