From the start of Tuesday’s House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, it was clear that the lawmakers and their sole witness, Under Secretary of Commerce Jeffrey Kessler, were having two very …

Kamo Kirakosyan pleaded guilty Wednesday to one charge linked to a criminal conspiracy to export goods from the United States to the Russian Federation through the Republic of Armenia.

Two new settlements Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security reached with technology and defense companies came to light on Tuesday, as the agency posted a $1.7 million deal covering years of shipments to SMIC and a smaller deal addressing anti-boycott violations.

A pair of forthcoming regulations from the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls and the Bureau of Industry and Security indicate that Commerce will soon take on responsibility for exports of silencers and other firearm accessories.

Solventum Corp., the healthcare and medtech company spun off from 3M in 2024, will pay the government $1.6 million after admitting that it sent dozens of contactors — devices used to regulate the amount of gas in liquids — to semiconductor companies in China without the required licenses.

At 7 p.m. on a Thursday evening at the end of September, President Donald Trump announced new national security tariffs on foreign-made big rig trucks, cabinets and vanities and branded pharmaceuticals. In keeping with other tariff moves thus far in Trump’s second term, the announcement came not as an official White House statement or Federal Register notice, but in a series of posts on the president’s own social media platform.

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is extending public input on the renewal of its information collection program supporting national security and critical technology assessments of the U.S. industrial base as well as the collection of feedback from companies attending BIS export control seminars.

A federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced Vadim Yermolenko to 30 months in prison and forfeiture of more than $75,000 on Monday for his role in a scheme to procure ammunition and export-controlled electronics for two blacklisted Russian companies.

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) ruined the weekend of customs brokers across America on Friday afternoon when the agency posted a 407-item list of items that will be subject to national security tariffs, starting Monday.

A federal judge in Florida sentenced a Lebanese businessman to 44 months in prison this week for his role in a scheme to unlawfully export U.S.-made heavy machinery to Iran, capping off an investigation led by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Export Enforcement.

The U.S. Department of Commerce is accepting public input on its national security investigations into unmanned aircraft systems and polysilicon imports between July 16 and August 6, 2025.

Senate confirmed Paul Dabbar as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Commerce in a 56–40 vote. In this capacity, Dabbar assumes responsibility as the Department’s Chief Operating Officer, overseeing daily operations, a $11.4 billion annual budget, 12 bureaus, and a workforce of 47,000. He also joins the President’s Management Council.

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has announced a partially closed meeting of the Transportation and Related Equipment Technical Advisory Committee (TRANSTAC) scheduled for May 21, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET, in Washington, D.C.

David Peters has been nominated to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement, plugging one of the largest remaining gaps in the org chart at the Bureau of Industry and Security. Peters, most recently a Trial Attorney in the Fraud Section, Market Integrity and Major Frauds of the Justice Department takes the reins from Matt Axelrod, now with Gibson Dunn in Washington.

In contrast to the Treasury Department's flurry of staffing announcements, the Commerce Department quietly updated its website this week, detailing the staff incoming BIS Chief Jeffrey Kessler will rely on to ensure trade security. The appointment of James Rokas as Mr. Kessler's principal deputy has been thrown into doubt, as Chief of Staff Robert Burkett has replaced Mr. Rokas as acting undersecretary.

Trump’s Tariff Man at Commerce, Howard Lutnick,  is making no bones about the fact that he is a fan of President Trump’s idea of across-the-board tariffs on all countries. At a hearing on his nomination before the Senate Commerce Committee last week, several senator expressed a preference for targeted tariffs. But the nominee for Commerce Secretary, said across-the-board tariffs are the way to get “reciprocity, respect and fairness” from other countries. The 25 percent tariff hike that President Trump says he plans to impose on Canada and Mexico on February 1 is not really a tariff “per se,” Mr. Lutnick said, but rather it’s about “creating action.”

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul sent a letter to Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Alan Estevez expressing his frustration regarding the Bureau of Industry and Security’s (BIS) "overall aversion to enforcing export controls against China’s semiconductor industry, including Huawei and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC)." "It is irreconcilable that only SMIC’s most advanced production line (SMIC South) has a presumption of denial licensing policy, whereas the rest of its corporate network faces little to no restrictions."

The Transportation and Related Equipment Technical Advisory Committee will meet on November 13, 2024, 9:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, in the Herbert C. Hoover Building, Room 3884, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC The open session will be accessible via teleconference. To join the conference, submit inquiries to Ms. Patricia Muldonian at PatriciaMuldonian@bis.doc.gov.

The US Commercial service will be conducting a series of Export Compliance workshops in the coming months, visiting Tampa, Charlotte, Connecticut, Phoenix and Salt Lake City.

The Materials and Equipment Technical Advisory Committee will meet on November 7, 2024, 10:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, in the Herbert C. Hoover Building, The Open session will include presentations by Livingston International and the Hydraulic Institute Valve Association