• Jonathan Wang, Lisa Mays and J. Scott Maberry
• 2024-08-17
• Trade Show News
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Now including the kitchen sink: Expanding export controls

Last year, we published an update on BIS’s ban on exports of EAR99 items to Russia and Belarus. We noted (somewhat jokingly) that kitchen sinks might one day be included on the banned export list. Well, that day has come. Stainless steel kitchen sinks have officially been banned from export to Russia and Belarus. In our recent blog post on Russian sanctions, we noted that the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had tightened sanctions against Russian financial infrastructure. On the same day, the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) also published a draft regulation targeting Russia. These BIS regulations have now been implemented as final rules and will be published on June 18, 2024. In summary, the new regulations further strengthen export controls on Russia and Belarus in the following aspects: Add EAR99 items that are prohibited from export without a license; Imposing new software licensing requirements for certain EAR99 software; Narrowing the scope of goods and…