United States: Export Controls & Trade & Investment Sanctions

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

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) partially relaxed export controls on Syria on August 28, 2025. In contrast to the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)'s prior lifting of U.S. economic sanctions and financial restrictions on Syria, in which OFAC repealed the entirety of the Syrian Sanctions Regulations...

On August 28, 2025, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a final rule to relax existing restrictions on exports and reexports to Syria of items subject to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).