In keeping with a recent Trump administration trend of issuing draft regulations on foreign trade and investment with scant notice, the U.S. Department of Commerce published on the day before Thanksgiving proposed rules that would give the department sweeping new powers to review information technology and communications transactions involving “foreign adversaries” of the United States.

International trade and national security lawyers said the regulation’s broad scope introduces significant uncertainty for clients about which supply chain transactions might be affected.

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