Category: Regulations

July 5, 2023

In the semiconductor industry that’s a particularly difficult question to answer. There are plenty of VCs around who will support a good idea for an IC. If a good idea for an IC transforms into a designed product then there […]

June 28, 2023

Potential new restrictions on the sale of artificial intelligence semiconductors to China could come with a hefty long-term cost for the American chip industry—and another setback for U.S. relations with Beijing. The potential export controls would prevent Nvidia NVDA -1.81%decrease; […]

June 21, 2023

A bill just introduced in the U.S. Senate would expand restrictions on the foreign manufacture of breakthrough technologies discovered by publicly funded research. The Invent Here, Make Here Act of 2023 builds on a law that passed as part of […]

June 20, 2023

Members of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) team hit Capitol Hill on Thursday to urge Members of Congress to support brand new legislation designed to equip American workers and manufacturers with new trade tools to take on some of […]

June 14, 2023

The European Parliament has recently approved new regulations to significantly improve the design, production, and waste management of batteries sold within the European Union (EU). EU Regulations to Improve Battery Lifecycle and Performance The legislation covers all types of batteries […]

June 7, 2023

America’s steel industry made a spectacular turnaround at the start of the decade after facing years of layoffs and plant closures due to surging unfairly traded imports. But labor and business leaders warned the Congressional Steel Caucus on Wednesday morning […]

June 1, 2023

FDA inspectors concluded their assessment of iRhythm’s facility in Cypress, Calif. in August 2022. The FDA visit led to a Form 483 later that month. iRhythm took steps to address the concerns raised in the 483 but its actions failed […]

May 30, 2023

Early last week, China’s Commerce Minister Wang Wentao, after a meeting m Korean Trade Minister Ahn Duk-geun, said the two countries had agreed to strengthen dialogue and cooperation on semiconductor industry supply chains. However, a Korean government statement on the […]

May 24, 2023

The Biden administration has canceled plans to award a $200 million grant to a U.S. battery manufacturer amid criticism from Republican lawmakers over the company’s alleged ties to China. Texas-based Microvast was one of 20 companies to win preliminary grants […]

May 24, 2023

A number of products “produced or manufactured wholly or in part with Uyghur forced labor may continue to enter the United States” despite new efforts to halt these imports, according to a policy proposal approved Wednesday by the Select Committee […]

May 22, 2023

China’s cyberspace regulator said that Micron had failed its network security review but did not say on what grounds. As most of Micron’s China sales are to consumer chstomers it may not hit Micron particularly hard. “We firmly oppose restrictions […]

May 17, 2023

The General Services Administration (GSA) on Tuesday issued new “Buy Clean” pilot guidelines for the procurement of substantially lower embodied carbon construction materials, including steel. These requirements will apply to 11 GSA projects funded by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) […]

May 16, 2023

Delaware’s Supreme Court on May 15 overturned a judge’s ruling upholding a decision by state officials to prohibit electric vehicle maker Tesla from selling its cars directly to customers. In a ruling last year, a Superior Court judge determined that […]

May 12, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic and supply chain shortages that followed exposed just how vulnerable the offshoring of critical manufacturing had left the United States. One of the most frustrating things about those crises was that United States itself was to blame, […]

May 10, 2023

A number of vocal proponents of a UK semiconductor strategy seem to be asking for money without exactly specifying where it will be spent or why, once spent, it would do any good. They threaten to relocate to the US […]

May 9, 2023

Members of Congress headed to a container ship terminal in Staten Island on Tuesday — “the birthplace of Pete Davidson,” as hometown Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) described it — for a special field hearing to examine how trade is impacting […]

May 4, 2023

Take a look down any neighborhood street, and you’re sure to find a bounty of cardboard boxes nestled by front doors, holding the fruits of online purchases that took only a click or swipe to make. It’s a system that […]

May 4, 2023

Members of Congress continue to raise concern about Chinese companies SHEIN and Temu’s alleged use of forced labor, and now leaders of a key congressional committee are looking into allegations surrounding iconic Western brands Nike and Adidas as well. Reps. […]

May 2, 2023

Two dozen Members of Congress wrote to the SEC on Monday to ask the agency to mandate that online retailer SHEIN “certify via independent verification” that it does not use forced labor as a condition for its potential Initial Public […]

April 17, 2023

Deputy United States Trade Representative Sarah Bianchi alluded to the possible imposition of further tariffs on Chinese imports while speaking at the Center on Inclusive Trade and Development’s inaugural Rethinking World Trade 2023 conference on April 13. In her remarks, […]