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President Trump directed Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative to negotiate agreements addressing imports of robotics and machine tools, accepting recent finding that the imports threaten to impair national security.
The Financial Action Task Force’s first plenary under UK President Giles Thomson is scheduled for October 28–30 in Paris. Delegates are expected to advance FATF’s fraud roadmap, review jurisdictions under increased monitoring and are expected to discuss mutual evaluations of the United States and Mexico.
The case shows how delayed disclosure and unresolved sanctions warnings can turn a modest sales account into a multimillion-dollar enforcement matter. Extreme’s cooperation and remediation secured DOJ’s first “near miss” non-prosecution agreement, but reporting only after a journalist presented new evidence cost it eligibility for a declination.
The Trump administration’s efforts to ease sanctions on Russia could open substantial commercial opportunities for Russian state interests and private investors, combining newly authorized diesel sales with a proposed $25 billion Alaska gas venture and possible relief for the Kremlin’s multibillion-dollar investment fund.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) is accepting applications for its new U.S. Resources Management Industry Listing, an online directory intended to help U.S. suppliers reach international buyers.
The Treasury Department issued proposed regulations October 22 adding biotechnology to the U.S. outbound-investment screening regime, advancing a central objective of the bipartisan Biotech Investment National Security Act (BINSA).
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