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Remarks as Prepared for Delivery 

Thank you to Martin, Izzy, and Tara for putting together today’s summit and for inviting me along.  Your U.S. Attorney’s Offices are on the leading edge of technology protection efforts, and I’m thrilled to get to partner with you in this work.   

Unlike my three DOJ colleagues, I work at the Department of Commerce, where I lead a dedicated cadre of law enforcement agents and analysts who work all day every day to keep our country’s most sensitive technologies out of the world’s most dangerous hands.   

New York Company Received Over $250,000 from Sanctioned Russian Entity to Purchase and Export Electronic Components

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Commerce launched the Disruptive Technology Protection Network with Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK), hosting the first high-level trilateral summit in Washington, D.C.  The creation of this network follows an August 2023 Camp David summit between the leaders of the three countries, during which they committed to expanding collaboration on technology protection measures and build connections between representatives of the U.S. Disruptive Technology Strike Force and Japan and ROK counterparts.

Washington, D.C.

April 25, 2024

Remarks as Prepared for Delivery

Thank you all for joining us today to kick off the Disruptive Technology Protection Network, as first envisioned by the leadership of our three countries at Camp David this past summer.

Our gathering together here in this Great Hall – and the formal launch of this joint effort – couldn’t come at a more important time.

Defendants Conspired to Unlawfully Export Millions of Dollars’ Worth Of Aircraft Parts From the United States to Venezuela’s State-Owned Oil Company Through Costa Rica And Spain

A Pennsylvania man was sentenced today to 70 years in prison for torturing an Estonian citizen in 2015 in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and for the illegal export of weapons parts and related services.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added 11 entities to the Entity List for activities contrary to U.S. national security and foreign policy interests. The 11 entities are under the destinations of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) (6), Russia (3), and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) (2).

Four entities were added for support for the PRC’s military modernization efforts; Two of these four also supported Military-Intelligence End Users through the acquisition of U.S.-origin items.

Defendants Orchestrated More Than $4.5 Million in Unlawful Transactions, Sold Sensitive Aircraft Parts to Russian Companies

Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement Matthew S. Axelrod at BIS’s 2024 Update Conference on Export Controls and Policy

March 28, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a new resource for companies, financial institutions, freight forwarders, and others to help them identify boycott-related requests they may receive during the regular course of business. The resource is a public list of entities who have been identified as having made a boycott-related request in reports received by BIS.