Commerce Dept. Tech Export Items Coming This Year, Official Says

The Commerce Department may propose export controls on emerging technologies within weeks and an advance NPRM on foundational technologies before year's end, after delays (see 1909040029). That could help ease concerns from industry that warns against overly broad, unilateral controls, Matthew Borman, deputy assistant secretary-export administration, told a Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committee meeting Tuesday. "Some companies are starting to think about moving R&D offshore because they don't know what's going to come out,” said Borman. “These will be very specific. They will not be general categories.” There will be a 60-day comment period for both, twice that as proposed originally for the ANPRM, the official said.