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Hull led the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and
Security for the past year as it further cut off supplies to
Huawei Technologies, the telecommunications equipment maker
placed on a U.S. trade blacklist last year over national
security concerns.
During his tenure, the department strengthened U.S. export
controls in response to China's policy of eliminating barriers
between its civilian and military sectors, and blacklisted video
surveillance equipment maker Hikvision and other companies over
the treatment of Uighur Muslims.
"I'm proud of what we've been able to achieve on important
national security issues," Hull, acting undersecretary for
industry and security, said in an interview. "I've decided to
look for the next challenge in the private sector."
Hull took the Commerce Department post last November, six months
after Huawei was put on the so-called "entity list," which
allowed the U.S. government to restrict sales of U.S.-made goods
to the company.
But key foreign supply chains remained beyond the reach of U.S.
authorities, prompting the agency to apply further curbs.
Hull also worked with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the
United States (CFIUS), which led an investigation into the
Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok.
He has been in government for about six years, most of them in
the U.S. House of Representatives, including as general counsel
to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Hull's last day will be Dec. 4. The turnover of power for the
new U.S. administration takes place Jan. 20.
(Reporting by Karen Freifeld; Editing by Stephen Coates and
Edwina Gibbs)
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