The US Trade Representative’s Office announced it is extending 352 reinstated exclusions and 77 Covid-related exclusions to the Section 301 tariffs on Chinese products while it continues its four-year review of the tariffs. The tariff exclusions are being extended until December 31. They were previously set to expire September 30.

A group of Congressional Democrats are raising questions with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo over her department’s failure to release data on its approvals of assault weapons exports. …

On September 1, leaders from the Offices of Inspector General (OIGs) for the Department of State (State), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and Department of Defense (DoD) met with key anti-corruption officials from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), and the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) of Ukraine.

Huawei's release of a phone called the Mate 60 Pro has the industrial security community atwitter, if we can still use that word.   The device boasts a processor fabricated at seven nanometers, a threshold of precision the allied export controls of chipmaking equipment were meant to thwart.   

The 2022 report on the EU's trade defence activities, was published this week. It shows that the European Commission has continued to be active and assertive in defending EU producers against unfair …

OFAC Published Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions Regulations Web General License 13F   Transactions Involving the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the National Wealth Fund of the Russian Federation, and the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation

The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that the goods and services deficit was $65.0 billion in July, up $1.3 billion from $63.7 billion in June, revised. …

IMF staff partnered with eight Nordic and Baltic countries in a first-of-its-kind anti-money laundering technical assistance project,   They conclude that combatting money laundering is beyond the capacity of any single nation—and that countries must innovate together to find a solution. The regional report analyses selected aspects of the Nordic-Baltic region’s AML/CFT regimes. It focuses on key money-laundering threats resulting from a novel financial flows analysis (based on cross-border payments data), vulnerabilities related to AML/CFT supervision of the banking sector and crypto asset service providers and the potential impact of financial integrity failures on financial stability.

Representatives Gregory Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Andy Barr (R-KY), Vice Chair of the House India Caucus,introduced legislation to loosen export restrictions of high-performance computing equipment to India.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) revealed a Financial Trend Analysis (FTA) concerning potential evasion of Russia-related export controls, based on Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) reports amounting to nearly $1 billion in suspicious activity. BIS utilizes data from BSA reports to instigate new investigations and support ongoing ones.

Massachusetts and New Hampshire-based clothing accessories company owner Thomas Bates was penalized by the FTC for making false claims about being made domestically.

Vice President Kamala Harris participated in the annual East Asia Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia on Sept. 7, making clear the United States' support of the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific. In Washington, The State Department announced that a US-Association of Southeast Asian Nations Center will be established in Washington through a "public-private partnership."

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry traveled to Kenya and Romania in early September "to advance shared objectives on climate and clean energy," per the State Department. In Nairobi, Mr. Kerry participated in the Africa Climate Summit, promoting U.S. efforts responding to climate change, while. in Bucharest, Mr. Kerry attended the Three Seas Summit, focused on relations between the Adriatic, Baltic and Black Seas.

The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party will hold a hearing on September 12th at 8:30 a.m., at Peterson Hall at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, NY. The committee is also expected to host a tabletop war game for Wall Street executives to illustrate a PRC invation of Taiwan.   

The European Council sanctioned six individuals responsible for serious human rights violations in the Russian Federation and in the territories of Ukraine that Russia has temporarily occupied, including violations of freedom of opinion and expression. The individuals listed include prosecutors and judges active in courts established by Russia’s occupying force in illegally annexed Crimea. as well as two members of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) that either took part in torturing journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko, or conducted the investigations in his case, and those of members of the Crimean Tatar community, and of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Crimea.

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), through the Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC), publishes the National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE Report) each year. USTR invites comments to assist it and the TPSC in identifying significant foreign barriers to, or distortions of, U.S. exports of goods and services, U.S. foreign direct investment, and U.S. electronic commerce for inclusion in the NTE Report.

In a press briefing ahead of the G20 summit, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen emphasized the administrations efforts to promote development through multilateral development banks (MDBs)., …

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Deputies of the REPO Task Force met in Washington to enhance sanctions enforcement efforts and bolster ongoing oligarch asset forfeiture initiatives.  Participants from Australia, Canada, …

The recently unveiled United States Strategy on Countering Corruption delineates an ambitious approach to address corruption through a series of well-defined measures. This initiative, detailed under five distinct pillars, seeks to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of existing government frameworks, both within and outside U.S borders. To curb corruption and its deleterious effects, the U.S. Government will organize its efforts around five mutually reinforcing pillars of work: 1.  Modernizing, coordinating, and resourcing U.S. Government efforts to fight corruption;  2. Curbing illicit finance; 3. Holding corrupt actors accountable; 4. Preserving and strengthening the multilateral anti-corruption architecture; and, 5. Improving diplomatic engagement and leveraging foreign assistance resources to advance policy goals.