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In issuing the Affiliates Rule with immediate effect, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) drastically expanded the number of entities subject to the BIS’ most restrictive export tools by applying the same trade prohibitions to any entities that are owned, directly or indirectly, 50 percent or more by one or…

On September 12, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released a final rule that announced the addition of 32 new entities to the Entity List (see BIS final rule here). 23 entities were added under the destination of China, one under India, one under Iran, one under…

On August 23rd, 2024, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the U.S. Department of State (State), and the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) acted against Russia’s international supply chains.

OFAC and State collectively sanctioned nearly 400 individuals and entities. Of note, this included a substantial focus on…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…