Alexander Marks
Alexander joined Tradewin in 2017 after working in the finance and transportation industries for six years. He began working as a Classification Consultant and was responsible for HTS classification, advisory, and auditing for clients in the networking, electronics, and transportation industries. He earned his LCB in 2019, at which time he began to focus on export compliance. He worked on restricted party screening, license determination, and ECCN classification for various Tradewin clients and developed an export compliance program for a client’s newly acquired company. Alex spent several years working closely with an export control group, becoming a subject matter expert in encryption commodities and their controls. He is currently a Senior Consultant with Tradewin’s Export Compliance department.
On January 16th, the Bureau of Industry and Security published new Federal Register regulations that refine their AI computing hardware controls. BIS believes new AI capabilities “will enable malicious actors to engage in activities that pose profound risks to U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives” while indicating that “AI models have the potential to create significant economic and social benefits in the United States and across the globe.” As a result, the new regulations are designed to carefully place the line between the potential threat actors and those who will use AI to advance US or human interests.
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Topics:
License Exceptions,
United States,
Security
Starting in 2022, the US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) implemented complex new export regulations that have a widespread impact on businesses. The first BIS update to include the Advanced Semiconductor Controls regulations was originally published on October 7th, 2022. The update just celebrated its first birthday and was recently updated to refine controls. Processing units for artificial intelligence workloads were a notable target of the update, setting tighter restrictions on AI chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment and introducing new BIS entity lists restricting transfers with hundreds of foreign companies.
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Topics:
Export Consulting,
North America
