Export Controls
Overview
Export controls and sanctions regulations present significant challenges and potential compliance risks for global companies. The U.S. government regulates transfers of goods, technology, software, and other products and services to foreign destinations as well as to foreign persons within the United States and abroad. These controls are far reaching, extending to direct transfers of goods, technology, software, and services from the United States, "reexports" of certain U.S.-origin items and technology from one foreign country to another, and reexports of certain foreign-manufactured items containing U.S. content. They also apply to transfers of technology to foreign persons within the United States and U.S. persons working for foreign companies. Other governments have their own export control and sanction regulatory regimes, creating complex compliance obligations with practical and commercial implications for businesses, including problems with inventory management and shipping delays.
Contacts
Insights
Client Alert | 8 min read | 10.01.25
On September 29, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a sweeping Interim Final Rule (IFR), (the “Affiliates Rule”) expanding which entities qualify as Entity List or Military End-User entities, thereby subjecting those entities to elevated export control restrictions under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). U.S. export restrictions applicable to entities on the Entity List, Military End-User (MEU) List, and Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN List) now apply to foreign affiliates that are, in the aggregate, owned 50% or more by one or more of the aforementioned entities. An entity that becomes subject to these restrictions because of its ownership structure will be subject to the most restrictive controls that attach to any of its parent entities, regardless of ownership stakes.
Client Alert | 6 min read | 09.11.25
U.S. Department of Commerce Partially Relaxes Export Controls on Syria
Firm News | 3 min read | 06.30.25
Former Microsoft Assistant General Counsel Scott Wise Joins Crowell & Moring
Firm News | 4 min read | 06.26.25
Crowell Earns Top Rankings from Legal 500 United States 2025
Insights
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06.15.23
Government Contracting Law Report
The Impact of the Crisis in Ukraine on the Effort to Reform U.S. Space Controls
|08.01.14
World ECR, Issue 33
Trade Consultant Fears Australian Industry 'Not Ready' for AUKUS Exemptions
|05.15.24
Export Compliance Daily
Companies Should Assess Exposure To Potential Russia-Style Controls Against China, Lawyer Says
|06.22.22
Export Compliance Daily
Anti-Money Laundering & Financial Crimes Conference 2023
|05.22.23 - 05.23.23
American Conference Institute's 10th Advanced Forum on Import Compliance & Enforcement
|01.21.16 - 01.22.16
Red Flags: Navigating the Hurricane (2024 Corporate Counsel Section CLE)
|02.02.24
"Sanctions and Export Controls: Ensuring Compliance," One Trust Webinar, 2023.
|06.29.23
U.S. Department of Commerce Imposes New Expansive Export Controls on Russia and Belarus
|02.27.23
Crowell & Moring’s International Trade Law
Sanctions/Export Highlights [As of November 03, 2022]
|11.07.22
Crowell & Moring’s International Trade Law
Sanctions/Export Highlights [As of October 24, 2022]
|10.24.22
Crowell & Moring’s International Trade Law
Aluminum from Xinjiang Could be at Risk of Being Tainted with Forced Labor, Per April 2022 Report
|08.09.22
Crowell & Moring’s International Trade Law
Insights
Client Alert | 8 min read | 10.01.25
On September 29, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a sweeping Interim Final Rule (IFR), (the “Affiliates Rule”) expanding which entities qualify as Entity List or Military End-User entities, thereby subjecting those entities to elevated export control restrictions under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). U.S. export restrictions applicable to entities on the Entity List, Military End-User (MEU) List, and Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN List) now apply to foreign affiliates that are, in the aggregate, owned 50% or more by one or more of the aforementioned entities. An entity that becomes subject to these restrictions because of its ownership structure will be subject to the most restrictive controls that attach to any of its parent entities, regardless of ownership stakes.
Client Alert | 6 min read | 09.11.25
U.S. Department of Commerce Partially Relaxes Export Controls on Syria
Firm News | 3 min read | 06.30.25
Former Microsoft Assistant General Counsel Scott Wise Joins Crowell & Moring
Firm News | 4 min read | 06.26.25
Crowell Earns Top Rankings from Legal 500 United States 2025