The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a final rule which amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to implement the Wassenaar Arrangement's December 2005 agreement to revise the formula for calculating computer performance from Composite Theoretical Performance (CTP) measured in Millions of Theoretical Operations Per Second (MTOPS) to Adjusted Peak Performance (APP) measured in Weighted TeraFLOPS (Trillion Floating point Operations Per Second) (WT).
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a final rule which amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to implement the Wassenaar Arrangement's December 2005 agreement to revise the formula for calculating computer performance from Composite Theoretical Performance (CTP) measured in Millions of Theoretical Operations Per Second (MTOPS) to Adjusted Peak Performance (APP) measured in Weighted TeraFLOPS (Trillion Floating point Operations Per Second) (WT).
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a final rule which amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to implement the Wassenaar Arrangement's December 2005 agreement to revise the formula for calculating computer performance from Composite Theoretical Performance (CTP) measured in Millions of Theoretical Operations Per Second (MTOPS) to Adjusted Peak Performance (APP) measured in Weighted TeraFLOPS (Trillion Floating point Operations Per Second) (WT).
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a final rule which amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to implement the Wassenaar Arrangement's December 2005 agreement to revise the formula for calculating computer performance from Composite Theoretical Performance (CTP) measured in Millions of Theoretical Operations Per Second (MTOPS) to Adjusted Peak Performance (APP) measured in Weighted TeraFLOPS (Trillion Floating point Operations Per Second) (WT).
The Washington Post reports that President Bush's move to nominate current U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Rob Portman as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has been widely viewed as indicating that the Bush Administration holds little hope for secure a far-reaching deal in the Doha round of trade talks in 2006 and possibly for much longer than that. (WP dated 04/19/06, available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/18/AR2006041801488.html.)
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a final rule, effective March 21, 2006, which revises the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to clarify certain provisions or to update technical information. BIS notes that these revisions were identified through internal review or questions from the public. The following are highlights of the revisions made by BIS' final rule:
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a final rule, effective February 24, 2006, in order to amend the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding two cross-references to the General Order Implementing the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Act (Syria General Order).
The Wall Street Journal reports that as China's trade clout grows, its manufacturers are increasingly running afoul of Western anti-trust law in products from Vitamin C (where half a dozen civil antitrust suits have been filed against Chinese manufacturers) to magnesite - a mineral used in steel production. According to the article, these anti-trust accusations are the result of Chinese companies forming alliances to raise prices - a effort to stave off dumping accusations. (WSJ, dated 02/10/06, www.wsj.com )
According to a Department of Commerce press release, the U.S. and Mexico reached an agreement in principle on cement trade that will resolve a sixteen-year dispute and liberalize trade in cement between the two countries. The press release adds that the Commerce Department will continue to work with its counterparts to finalize the text of the agreement in order to ensure that outstanding issues are resolved. (Commerce Dept, dated 01/19/06, available at http://www.ita.doc.gov/media/PressReleases/0106/cement_011906.html )
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a summary of changes to the Automated Export System Trade Interface Requirements (AESTIR) on its Web site, indicating that Version 1.0 was changed or features were added or deleted on January 11, 2006 as follows: