Entity List

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives decided to disclose aggregated data from the Commerce Department on licensing decisions for possible sales to Chinese telecoms company Huawei and semiconductor company SMIC for the six month period from November 2020 to April 2021. These companies are on

As we reported several weeks ago, the Biden administration is divided over whether to add Chinese smartphone maker Honor Device Co. Ltd. to an export blacklist on the basis of its past connections with Chinese tech company Huawei (the issue also came up at a recent Senate hearing). Now U.

A Hong Kong textile company has gone to U.S. court to challenge its inclusion on the "Entity List" maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce. While its request for a preliminary injunction was recently rejected by a U.S. judge, the company's complaint will continue as it protests

The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing today in which it considered the nominations of Alan Estevez and Thea Kendler for key positions at the Bureau of Industry and Security at the Commerce Department. As explained by Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) during his

In a July 12 letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) argued that Chinese semiconductor maker Yangtze Memory Technologies Company (YMTC) should be included on the Commerce Department's Entity List, on the basis that the company has "clear ties to the Party-state

On September 19, the Ministry of Commerce issued Decree No. 4 [2020] Provisions on the List of Unreliable Entities (《不可靠实体清单规定》) (“the Provisions”), taking effect on the date of issuance. This is part of China’s overall effort to create more legal tools in response to foreign sanctions, export controls, investment