BIS Sees 'Significant Interest' Expressed on Proposed Expansion of US Persons Controls, Official Says
The Bureau of Industry and Security is reviewing public comments on two rules it proposed last year to expand U.S. persons controls, a Commerce Department official said March 18.
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BIS received about 70 comments on the proposed rules, reflecting “a significant amount of public interest,” the official said at the BIS annual update conference. About 45 comments addressed the military and intelligence end-uses and end-user rule and about 25 dealt with the foreign-security end-user rule.
The State Department, which released a proposed rule on defense services in tandem with the BIS rules, “received even more comments on their rulemaking than we did on our two proposed rules,” said the official, who declined to say when the rules would be finalized or what changes might be made.
The proposed rules, released in July 2024, would add new restrictions on U.S. persons’ support for foreign military intelligence and foreign-security end users (see 2407250032). They also would revise the export licensing scope of certain defense-related services. Public comments were due in late September.