BIS technical corrections to July 18 EAR standards-related activities rule (Entity List language)

Mechanism

A pure CFR text-correction rule. The July 18, 2024 interim final rule on standards-related activities (FR Doc. 2024-15810) was intended to clarify that release of EAR-controlled technology or software to standards organizations for legitimate standards-related activity is generally not subject to the EAR — a policy goal that, among other things, enables US companies to continue participating in international standards bodies (5G, AI, semiconductors) alongside Entity-Listed firms such as Huawei. In drafting that rule, BIS inadvertently altered separate Entity List language in 15 CFR Part 744 that had been amended by recent Entity List final rules. This 2024-07-25 corrections document restores the prior Entity List text without modifying the substantive standards-related-activities clarifications.

Downstream implications

• No change to who is on the Entity List and no change to the scope of

standards-related-activities relief; downstream parameters (severity, tariff, licence policy) of the parent July 18 rule are unchanged.

• Relevant for register hygiene: when the July 18 standards-related rule

is filed as its own IPTM action, this corrections document should be recorded as an amendments: row on that parent rather than as a free-standing policy event.

Open questions

• Should the corrections doc be merged into the July 18 parent action's

amendments: block once that parent is filed? (Likely yes — this stub exists so the corrections document is not lost from the register, but has minimal independent policy weight.)