There could be issues with this.
I can see the Feds claiming that the states can’t conduct their own international trade policies. Wouldn’t be much different than if NY state wanted to raise tariffs on goods imported from a particular country.
The first line says “Federal law authorizes...” ,whatever that means.
This targets Siemens foremost, an old German company once closely tied to the Nazi war effort, but more recently:
“The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world’s most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale.” -Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2009
“Instead, in confronting the political turmoil that has consumed the country this past week, the Iranian government appears to be engaging in a practice often called deep packet inspection, which enables authorities to not only block communication but to monitor it to gather information about individuals, as well as alter it for disinformation purposes, according to these experts.” -Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2009
“The monitoring capability was provided, at least in part, by a joint venture of #Siemens AG, the German conglomerate, and Nokia Corp., the Finnish cellphone company, in the second half of 2008, Ben Roome, a spokesman for the joint venture, confirmed.” -Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2009