The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls said its Response Team and Help Desk will be closed Jan. 9 along with the rest of the federal government in observance of the national day of mourning for President Jimmy Carter. They will reopen at 8 a.m. on Jan. 10, DDTC said. “Due to the closure and depending on volume of inquires received, responses to support requests and processing of classified provisos for delivery may be delayed,” it said.
CBP notified export filers this week that it has officially updated an appendix in the Automated Export System with two new fatal error codes involving items classified under U.S. Munitions List Category XXI. The Census Bureau announced the changes last week (see 2412310011), saying AES will reject filings of shipments controlled under Category XXI if they don’t include a valid State Department commodity jurisdiction determination number.
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The Automated Export System on Jan. 1 will begin rejecting filings of shipments controlled under U.S. Munitions List Category XXI if they don’t include a valid State Department commodity jurisdiction determination number, the Census Bureau said this week. Census is also putting in place new AES codes to address a “workaround” used by some exporters to ship Foreign Military Sales (FMS) items that aren’t described on the USML.
Space industry associations and companies largely welcomed a recent State Department proposal to modernize U.S. space-related export controls, although they asked for several clarifications, fewer export control guardrails and an extended timeline to allow space firms to update their compliance programs.
The Commerce Department’s fall 2024 regulatory agenda for the Bureau of Industry and Security features a host of new rules that could soon update U.S. export controls, including restrictions on aircraft engines, biological equipment and reporting requirements for certain weapons sales, AI chips.
President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Jacob Helberg, a commissioner with the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission, to be the State Department’s next undersecretary for economic growth, energy and the environment. Helberg will “guide State Department policy on Economic statecraft, promoting America's Economic security and growth, and American technological dominance abroad,” Trump said in a Dec. 10 post on Truth Social.
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The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls is seeking public comments on an information collection involving license applications to export or temporarily import export-controlled defense articles or technical data. Companies must use Form DSP-85 to obtain permission to carry out those activities involving items covered by the U.S. Munitions List. Comments on the information collection are due Feb. 10.
A Chinese national was charged for his role in a scheme to illegally ship export-controlled "defense-related technical data" to China and illegally supply the Department of Defense with Chinese-origin rare earth magnets for aviation systems and military items, DOJ announced.