On Monday, June 12, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) added 43 new entities under 50 entries to its Entity List. This list includes 31 entities in China, as well as entities located in Kenya, Laos, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.
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U.S. Department of Commerce Imposes New Expansive Export Controls on Russia and Belarus
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued its latest set of export controls in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The broadest expansion of U.S. export controls on Russia since last fall, Friday’s actions are separate and distinct from the new sanctions regulations imposed by the U.S. Department…
Sanctions/Export Highlights [As of October 6, 2022]
New U.S., UK, and EU Designations: On September 30, 2022, the U.S. designated 295 individuals and entities. The new designations included 14 persons in Russia’s military industrial complex, including Sinno Electronics Co. and Taco LLC, Chinese and Armenian suppliers, for their support of a Russian defense procurement firm. The U.S. also targeted two Russian…
BIS Adds Chinese Supercomputing Centers and Companies to Entity List
On April 8, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a final rule that added the following seven Chinese entities to the Entity List:
- National Supercomputing Center Jinan
- National Supercomputing Center Shenzhen
- National Supercomputing Center Wuxi
- National Supercomputer Center Zhengzhou
- Shanghai High-Performance Integrated Circuit Design Center
- Sunway Microelectronics
- Tianjin Phytium Information Technology
The entities…
UPDATE: President Biden Imposes Sanctions & Export Controls on Myanmar In Response to Military Coup
In an update to our prior alert published last month, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has taken several additional actions further restricting Myanmar (Burma)’s access to items subject to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Last month, BIS publicly stated it was considering additional export control restrictions and as predicted, on March 4, 2021,…
WEBINAR: China in the Crosshairs: An Overview of the U.S. Approach to Mitigating National Security Concerns
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
In the past several years, the U.S. government has issued a series of sweeping Executive Orders, policy announcements, and other regulatory and enforcement actions as part of a multi-pronged approach to protect U.S. national interests against the perceived challenges…
UPDATE: New Notices Available for Public Inspection, Expected to be Published in the Federal Register June 5, 2020
To update our original post on May 29, 2020 BIS Adds 33 Chinese Companies to the Entity List, the new final rules are available for public inspection and expected to be published in the Federal Register on June 5, 2020. As mentioned in our prior blog post, the Department of Commerce announced the addition…
BIS Adds 33 Chinese Companies to the Entity List
Secretary of Commerce Ross announced the Entity List additions on Friday, May 22, 2020, via separate press releases, citing 24 of the entities for “represent[ing] a significant risk of supporting procurement of items for military end-use in China,” and the remaining 9 entities for their complicity in human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous…