BSA | The Software Alliance (“BSA”) welcomes this opportunity to provide comments to the US Department of Commerce’s (“Commerce”) Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) in response to its Interim Final Rule (“IFR”) and solicitation of comments regarding the implementation of additional export controls on certain advanced technologies. Leia mais

On behalf of the undersigned associations, we wish to express our profound concern and disappointment that the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has withdrawn its support for proposed World Trade Organizations (WTO) disciplines that protect cross-border data flows; prohibit data localization mandates; preclude discrimination against American-made digital products; and safeguard sensitive source code from forced disclosure mandates that enable malicious cyber activity. Leia mais