BIS eases controls on UAE, paving way for increased AI exports | Insi…

The US Commerce Department removed the UAE from restricted export control categories (D:3 and D:4), lifting license requirements for advanced computing equipment destined for UAE government and approved entities. This regulatory shift clears the path for US AI chip and computing infrastructure exports to support UAE's data centre expansion. If you sell AI chips or data centre hardware, the UAE market just opened: a category that required US government approval on every shipment no longer does. Your sales cycle in the Gulf just collapsed from months to weeks.