Compliance with U.S. export control regulations will get a little easier, thanks to new amendments that ease licensing requirements for companies that store or transmit technical data or software in the cloud—although, naturally, compliance with the regulations comes with a catch.
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) last month published a final rule amending a number of definitions in the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), while the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) concurrently published an interim final rule revising several definitions in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
