The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) govern "defense articles and defense services" which are defined as items, information, software (defense articles) and technical assistance ...

Update (April 30, 2025): We understand that James Rockas is no longer with BIS and has moved to a position in the State Department, but Robert Burkett remains at BIS. The second Trump administration ...

The Export Control project studies how the U.S. government can best protect key technologies and prevent the illicit spread of munitions and dual use goods while facilitating legitimate international ...

Department of State responsibility for the control of the permanent and temporary export and temporary import of defense articles and services is governed primarily by 22 U.S.C. 2778 of the Arms ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Throughout its term, the Biden administration has promoted and protected American ...

Two-and-a-half years ago, agencies from across the Justice, Commerce, Treasury, and Defense Departments partnered to form the Disruptive Technology Strike Force, with the stated mission “to fiercely ...

Taiwan’s June 10 entity list update is no mere technical fine-tuning – it marks a shift in both regulatory burden-sharing and further security alignment with the U.S. Taiwan just tightened its grip on ...

As the People’s Republic of China (PRC) retaliates to U.S. tariffs, it has not stopped at imposing its own taxes on imports of American products, which now stand at 125 percent for all U.S. goods. The ...

The Federal agencies and export control regulations most commonly associated with research activity at academic institutions in the US are listed below. Please note that violations of these export ...

The second Trump administration has come flying out of the starting blocks on international trade policy actions—imposing and rescinding, shaping and reshaping tariffs, sanctions, and export controls.