"Those destinations, which are listed in paragraph (a) to Supplement No. 5 to Part 740, are Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. For these destinations, this IFR makes minimal changes: companies in these destinations generally will be able to obtain the most advanced ICs without a license as long as they certify compliance with specific requirements provided in ยง 740.27." [0]
France seems clearly exempt from most of the requirements. The main requirement of 740.27 is to sign a license under U.S. law, under which customers are prohibited from re-exporting ICs to non-Third 1 countries without U.S. approval.
What's more, the text refers to AIs, which can have dual uses. The concept of dual civil-military use concerns a large number of technologies, and dates back to the first nuclear technologies.
The text gives a few examples of dual-use models, such as models that simulate or facilitate the production of chemical compounds that could be used for chemical weapon creation, non conventional weapon creation or that could simplify or replace already identified dual-use goods or technologies.
These uses are already covered by existing legislation on dual-use goods, and US export control. The American legislator is therefore potentially thinking of other uses, such as satellite and radar image analysis, and electronic warfare.
As France is a nuclear-armed country with its own version of thoses technologies, it makes little sense to place it under embargo.
But France isn't going to like being obliged once again to be forced to apply American law and regulation on its soil.
As a European, I hope that alternatives to American dependence will soon appear.
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France seems clearly exempt from most of the requirements. The main requirement of 740.27 is to sign a license under U.S. law, under which customers are prohibited from re-exporting ICs to non-Third 1 countries without U.S. approval.
What's more, the text refers to AIs, which can have dual uses. The concept of dual civil-military use concerns a large number of technologies, and dates back to the first nuclear technologies.
The text gives a few examples of dual-use models, such as models that simulate or facilitate the production of chemical compounds that could be used for chemical weapon creation, non conventional weapon creation or that could simplify or replace already identified dual-use goods or technologies.
These uses are already covered by existing legislation on dual-use goods, and US export control. The American legislator is therefore potentially thinking of other uses, such as satellite and radar image analysis, and electronic warfare.
As France is a nuclear-armed country with its own version of thoses technologies, it makes little sense to place it under embargo.
But France isn't going to like being obliged once again to be forced to apply American law and regulation on its soil.
As a European, I hope that alternatives to American dependence will soon appear.
[0] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00...