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BIS Adds 37 Entities to Entity list for Supporting Chinese, Iranian Militaries

December 17, 2021 by Ian Cohen|Top News

The Bureau of Industry and Security added 37 entities to the Entity List, including 34 Chinese research institutes and technology companies, for supporting China’s military modernization efforts or Iran’s weapons program. Other entities added to the list, located in Georgia, Malaysia and Turkey, supplied U.S.-origin items to Iranian defense industries, BIS said.

The entities will be subject to a license review policy of presumption of denial for all items subject to the Export Administration Regulations, and no license exceptions will be available for the entities.The additions in the final rule, which also add three new aliases under Huawei’s entry, take effect Dec. 17.

BIS specifically added China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences and 11 of its research institutes for using “biotechnology processes” to support Chinese military end-uses and end-users, including to create “brain-control weaponry.” The agency added other Chinese companies, including several microelectronics companies, for trying to illegally acquire U.S.-origin items to support China’s military modernization.

The companies and researchers are developing and sourcing the items in part to support China’s surveillance efforts over Muslim minorities, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said. “The scientific pursuit of biotechnology and medical innovation can save lives,” she said. “Unfortunately, [China] is choosing to use these technologies to pursue control over its people and its repression of members of ethnic and religious minority groups.” China’s U.S. embassy didn’t comment.

Other entities added to the list, including technology companies in China, Malaysia and Turkey, supply U.S.-origin items to Iran’s military, BIS said. Some companies provided U.S. goods to Iranian entities sanctioned as Specially Designated Nationals by the Treasury Department. “The U.S. will continue to stand strong against efforts by [China] and Iran to turn tools that can help humanity prosper into implements that threaten global security and stability,” Raimondo said.

All exports, reexports and transfers that now require a license as a result of the increased export restrictions that were aboard a carrier to a port as of Dec. 17 may proceed to their destinations under the previous eligibility, BIS said.

The 37 new entities, added under 40 entries because three entities were added under multiple destinations, are:

China

Georgia

Malaysia

Turkey