BIS Wedensday published Federal Register notices soliciting comments on Cuban Agricultural trade licensing processes. The Bureau also updated a table associated with with License Exceptions and made additions and deletions to the Unverified List.
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is requesting public comments on the effectiveness of its licensing procedures as defined in the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) for the export and reexport of agricultural commodities to Cuba.
BIS will include a description of any comments it receives in its biennial report to Congress.Comments must be received by November 15, 2024.
On August 27, 2024, the Office of the Federal Register approved an Incorporation By Reference (IBR) request submitted by BIS to post a table entitled “License Exception Implemented Export Controls (IEC) eligible items and destinations” on BIS' website. The table includes items and countries eligible for License Exception IEC, see § 740.24 of the EAR.
On September 5, 2024, BIS posted on its website updates to that table. The updates included changing the last modified date from “August 27, 2024” to “September 5, 2024”; changing the eligibility date for all the rows from “August 27, 2024” to “September 6, 2024”
(which was the date of publication for the rule entitled “Commerce Control List Additions and Revisions; Implementation of Controls on Advanced Technologies Consistent with Controls Implemented by International Partners,” RIN 0694-AJ60 (89 FR 72926));
On September 17, 2024, BIS posted on its website an update to the table that added Denmark, Finland to the table, and modified the entries for Japan on the table for appropriate item eligibility to match the implementation by these countries.
Finally, this rule revises paragraph (c) of § 740.24 by revising the last modified date to September 17, 2024, and changing the URL to a simpler address of www.bis.gov/IEC.
Of the eight persons being added, three are under the destination of China, People's Republic of (China); two are under the destination of Germany; one is under the destination of Pakistan; and.and two are under the destination of Türkiye.
BIS is also amending the EAR by removing two persons from the UVL. Of the two persons being removed, one is under the destination of Saudi Arabia, and the other is under the destination of China.
This rule adds eight persons to the UVL by amending supplement no. 6 to part 744 of the EAR to include their names and addresses. BIS is adding these persons pursuant to § 744.15(c) of the EAR. This final rule implements the decision to add the following eight persons located in the following destinations to the UVL: Hengye Technology Co., Ltd.; Skytop Electronics Ltd.; and YXS Technology Co., Ltd., under the destination of China; Arabian Aviation Trade Group and Tiptrans Limited, under the destination of Germany; Marshal Traders, under the destination of Pakistan; and Pegasus Technic Services and Vast Polymers, Ambalaj Sanayi Ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi, under the destination of Türkiye.
This rule removes two persons from the UVL because BIS was able to verify their bona fides. This rule removes the following two persons located in the following destinations from the UVL: Shengwei Technology Co., Ltd., under the destination of China; and Al Gihaz Co., Ltd. for Contracting and Trading, under the destination of Saudi Arabia.
BIS published a final rule entitled “Administrative and Enforcement Provisions” in the Federal Register on September 16, 2024, at 89 FR 75477, which contained an error in instruction number 2 amending 15 CFR 764.5.
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