DOC adds 36 companies to ‘Entity List,’ 25 removed after checks completed

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released two rules Thursday, one that adds 36 entities to the Entity List that apply strict licensing requirements that will severely limit these entities’ access to commodities, software and technologies subject to the Export Administration Regulations. (OVER).

The entities are primarily located in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with one entity, which is a subsidiary of a PRC entity added in this rule, located in Japan.

The second rule removes entities from the Unverified List (UVL) as a result of satisfactory completion of end-use controls (EUCs) and verification of those entities’ bona fides, including in cooperation with the PRC government. A total of 25 Chinese parties are removed from restricted party lists.

The second line also adds 9 Russian parties to the Entity List from the UVL due to the inability to complete EUCs.

“Today, we build on the actions we took in October to protect US national security by severely limiting the PRC’s ability to use artificial intelligence, advanced computing and other powerful, commercially available technologies for military modernization and human rights abuses,” said undersecretary. of Trade for Industry and Security Alan Estevez. “This work will continue, as will our efforts to detect and disrupt Russia’s efforts to obtain the necessary items and technologies and other items for its brutal war against Ukraine, including from Iran.”

“Today’s rules advance the Biden administration’s efforts to deny the PRC access to advanced technologies for military modernization and human rights abuses,” said Thea D. Rozman Kendler, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration.

“Following BIS’s Oct. 7 advanced computer and semiconductor manufacturing equipment rule, today’s additions to the Entity List advance our efforts to decisively limit access to advanced technologies in furtherance of U.S. national security requirements.”

“Our new end-use verification policy requiring the timely completion of end-use verifications by host governments to avoid placement on our unverified and entity lists is delivering results,” said Matthew S. Axelrod, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement.

“When a host government facilitates a check that leads to our ability to confirm a company’s bona fides, the company comes off the unverified list, as demonstrated by today’s 25 removals of Chinese companies from our restricted party lists. But when a host government persists in preventing a check, there are real consequences, as demonstrated by today’s addition of 9 Russian parties to the Entity List.

The 36 entities added to the Entity List under the first line are: Anhui Cambricon Information Technology Co., Ltd.; Cambricon (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.; Cambricon (Kunshan) Information Technology Co., Ltd.; Cambricon Jixingge (Nanjing) Technology Co., Ltd.; Cambricon (Nanjing) Information Technology Co., Ltd.; Cambricon Technologies Corporation Limited; Cambricon (Xi’an) Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd.; CETC Cloud (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.; CETC LES Information System Group Co., Ltd.; China Electronics Technology Group Corporation No. 28 Institute; Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Computer Technology; Guangdong Qinzhi Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.; Key Laboratory for Information Systems Engineering; Nanjing Aixi Information Technology Co., Ltd.; Nanjing LES Cyber ​​Security and Information Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.; Nanjing LES Electronic Equipment Co., Ltd.; Nanjing LES Information Technology Co., Ltd.; Shanghai Cambricon Information Technology Co., Ltd.; Suzhou Cambricon Information Technology Co., Ltd.; System Equipment Co., Ltd. of the 28th Research Institute (Liyang); and Xiong’an Cambricon Technology Co., Ltd.

Additional information about the Entity List is available on BIS’s website at: https://bis.doc.gov/index.php/policyguidance/faqs. For more information, visit www.bis.doc.gov.