The sale is subject to approval by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
The 33-year-old committee on foreign investment, CFIUS, is also refining its process for examining deals that might threaten security.
The transaction is subject to review by the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment, which evaluates the potential national security effects of transactions.
An attempted buyout of 3Com in 2007 collapsed after an investigation by the Committee on Foreign Investment In The United States.
The Treasury Department's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States said Wednesday that it hadn't found any national security reasons to prevent it.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) must block acquisitions, takeovers, or mergers involving Huawei and ZTE given the threat to U.S. national security interests.
Timothy Geithner, claiming that the executive order as well as a previous order issued by the Committee On Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) violate the U.S. constitution.
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An interagency group known as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) took a hard look at the proposal and, quite sensibly, rejected it on national security grounds.
The merger was extended for the third time, now that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) decided that it will commence on a 45 day investigation into the acquisition.
In order to ensure that the CNOOC deal is not a threat to U.S. national security, it requires review and approval by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
The question is not whether the ill-advised decision taken last week by the secretive Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (known by its acronym, CFIUS, pronounced syphius) will be undone.
Given such considerations, the question occurs: How could even a stacked deck like the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States find it possible to approve the Dubai Ports World's transaction?
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States recently approved the sale of Complete Genomics, based in Mountain View, California to China-based BGI (formerly known as the Beijing Genomics Institute).
But the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States fears that spies will access sensitive information passed through these devices and would work with Canadian regulators to quash most Chinese buyout attempts.
Huawei and former 3Leaf executives say they didn't think the acquisition required a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., or CFIUS, because they didn't buy all of the company's assets.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) is responsible for analyzing the national security implications, if any, of prospective mergers and acquisitions which involve the purchase of American companies by international investors.
At a minimum, the proposed sale of Hummer to China should be carefully reviewed by the interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, the intelligence community, the State and Defense departments and the Congress.
On Tuesday the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed 370-45, with 16 members not voting, the final version of a bill that will reform the review process for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
After several days of defiance, Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei announced Monday that it would abide a recommendation from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) that it divest of U.S. technology company 3-Leaf.
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Last year, in the wake of the firestorm concerning Dubai's proposed take-over of American ports, Congress enacted legislation to strengthen the hand of security-minded federal agencies involved in the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
This afternoon, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) will hold discussions with representatives of the Netherlands' company known as ASML, the world's second largest manufacturer of lithography machines used to produce high-quality silicon chips.
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They understand very well that the U.S., through the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., which includes representatives of 12 U.S. government agencies, has already blocked China National Offshore Oil 's attempt to acquire Unocal, an independent oil producer.
In a joint statement, Sprint and Softbank said they had received notice from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) that it had completed its review of the proposed deal and had found no unresolved issues.
This is not the first time this interagency panel - called the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) - has made an astounding call about the transfer of control of strategically sensitive U.S. assets to questionable purchasers.
The civilian leadership must redouble its efforts to make investment reviews under the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) more transparent and ensure that the review process cannot be taken hostage by security hawks or special interest groups.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) process...basically amounts to a "rigged game" - one in which the panel's secretive deliberations are little more than a matter of checking the necessary boxes to achieve a foreordained, positive outcome.
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An interagency panel called the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which looks at foreign investments for any national-security risk, has informally adopted what one official calls a "hard-look doctrine" toward any Russian attempts to invest in critical American industries.
Such an organization, modeled after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), whose deliberations are informed by the expertise of the Departments of Justice, Defense, State and the intelligence community, should be co-chaired by the Treasury Department and the NSC.
Unfortunately, that seemingly sound advice may not have reached Ralls Corporation, a Chinese-owned company that named President Obama, Treasury Secretary Geithner, and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) in a lawsuit recently filed in a District of Columbia federal court.
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They understand very well that the U.S., through the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., which includes representatives of 12 U.S. government agencies, has already blocked China National Offshore Oil 's (nyse: CEO - news - people ) attempt to acquire Unocal, an independent oil producer.
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