On Friday, May 22, 2020, the US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced in two separate press releases that it would be adding a number of companies and governmental entities to the Entity List.
A total of nine companies, as follows, will be added for their involvement in human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region:
China’s Ministry of Public Security’s Institute of Forensic Science;
Aksu Huafu Textiles Co.;
CloudWalk Technology;
FiberHome Technologies Group;
Nanjing FiberHome Starrysky Communication Development;
NetPosa;
SenseNets;
Intellifusion;
IS’Vision.
In addition, BIS separately announced that it would be designating two dozen entities for their involvement in military activities:
Beijing Cloudmind Technology Co., Ltd.;
Beijing Computational Science Research Center;
Beijing Jincheng Huanyu Electronics Co., Ltd.;
Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research;
Chengdu Fine Optical Engineering Research Center;
China Jiuyuan Trading Corporation;
Cloudminds (Hong Kong) Limited;
Cloudminds Inc.;
Harbin Chuangyue Technology Co., Ltd.;
Harbin Engineering University;
Harbin Institute of Technology;
Harbin Yun Li Da Technology and Development Co., Ltd.;
JCN (HK) Technology Co. Ltd.;
K Logistics (China) Limited;
Kunhai (Yanjiao) Innovation Research Institute;
Peac Institute of Multiscale Science;
Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd.;
Qihoo 360 Technology Company;
Shanghai Nova Instruments Co., Ltd.;
Sichuan Dingcheng Material Trade Co., Ltd.;
Sichuan Haitian New Technology Group Co. Ltd.;
Sichuan Zhonghe Import and Export Trade Co., Ltd.
Skyeye Laser Technology Limited;
Zhu Jiejin.
Once these restrictions go into effect, the export, re-export, or in-country transfer of items subject to the Export Administration Regulations to these entities without a BIS license will be prohibited.
Authored by Anthony Capobianco, Aleksandar Dukic, Ajay Kuntamukkala, Beth Peters, Stephen Propst, Adam Berry and Andrea Fraser-Reid
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