Scoop: Amidst US-China #chip war, @CommerceGov to send an Export Control Officer (#ECO) to #Taiwan. Currently, #BIS of the Commerce only has 9 ECO positions in 7 locations overseas. Taiwan and Finland will soon be two newly-added locations watching #China and #Russia. (1/7)
The most important role of ECO is to conduct end-user verifications. The US officer arrives at the end user's location to ensure the US goods or technology are doing what they're supposed to be doing. (2/7)
Current 7 locations: China, HK, India, Singapore, Germany, UAE, Turkey. "[These are] choke points, places where there's a significant amount of trade....a risk of diversion of US goods to unauthorized end users," former #ECO of Singapore Donald Pearce told Business Weekly. (3/7)
"My concern is that ppl will look at this as the US thinking that TW is the wild wild west," said Pearce, "it's the US looking at TW as being the key node in the semiconductor manufacturing industry & that we need to make sure we're doing everything possible to protect it." (4/7)
Former top US Commerce official Kevin Wolf told Business Weekly: "The base in Finland allows for #Russia-specific investigations and end use checks. The base in Taiwan allows for easier #PRC visits, investigations, and end use checks." (5/7)
Here is the usajob post: usajobs.gov/job/703025100 - Regional Criminal Investigator (Export Control Officer) (6/7)
Read more in Chinese: businessweekly.com.tw/Archive/Articl… (7/7)
*To make it clearer: Donald Pearce is a former US BIS Export Control Officer who was based in Singapore.
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