Trade and Manufacturing Monitor
First Round of CHIPS Funding Announced
On February 28, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the first funding opportunity under the CHIPS and Science Act (“CHIPS Act”), bipartisan legislation signed into law in 2022. The funding opportunity…
Biden Administration to Take Action on U.S. Outbound Investment Screening
Investment screening has become an increasingly important topic for the United States and its allies, as concerns grow about the accumulation of sensitive information and technologies by strategic adversaries like…
OFAC Sanctions Potanin, Interros, and Rosbank; but Norilsk Nickel is Excluded
Today, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) added Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin along with several of his companies to the Specially Designated Nationals (“SDN”) List. OFAC’s action specifically targets…
U.S. Imposes New Sanctions on Russia in Response to Claimed Annexation & Warns of Further Measures
Today, the U.S. Treasury Department and Commerce Department imposed new sanctions on Russia and Belarus as part of the G-7’s collective response to Russia’s claimed annexation of additional Ukraine territory. The new…
Biden Administration Issues Executive Order Defining Additional National Security Considerations for CFIUS
On September 15, President Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) with the first ever formal Presidential direction to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the Committee). The EO emphasizes…