BIS to Issue Huawei Restrictions Guidance, Borman Tells METAC

The Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security is preparing industry guidance for its August restrictions on Huawei (see 2008170043), said Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce-Export Administration Matt Borman. BIS will issue FAQs similar to its “fairly extensive” FAQs for new licensing restrictions for military-related exports, he told BIS' Material and Equipment Technical Advisory Committee meeting. He asked METAC members and industry to provide input on the pre-rule for foundational technologies (see 2008260013). The agency is looking for more candidates for emerging technology controls and wants to get back into the “process” of using industry comments to develop its own controls, Borman said Thursday.