On January 2, Beijing published the first control list of entities for export control purposes, making 28 U.S. companies subject to stringent dual-use item export controls.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Export Enforcement division published its annual Year in Review, with highlights of Export Enforcement’s accomplishments over the past year, including a number of actions related to China.

Today, the Department of Commerce added 37 Chinese entities to the export control entity list, 11 of which were punished for their involvement in the balloon saga last February.

Recent company lobbying and Congressional pressure on the Biden administration have put the Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) industry, which makes sensors used in autonomous vehicle, in the middle of the U.S.-China tech/trade conflict.

Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, along with a group of bipartisan lawmakers, urged the Biden administration to "open investigations into Autel Robotics, a People's

Last Friday, the U.S. Commerce Department added 42 Chinese companies to the Entity List "for providing support to Russia’s military and/or defense industrial base." This came after it added 11 Chinese firms a week earlier.

The U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security sanctioned 31 Chinese entities, as well as some entities in a number of third countries on the basis of their ties to the Chinese military, putting these companies under tighter export control rules.