Additions and Modifications to the Entity List

<RULE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>Bureau of Industry and Security</SUBAGY> <CFR>15 CFR Part 744</CFR> <DEPDOC>[Docket No. 250325-0050]</DEPDOC> <RIN>RIN 0694-AK04</RIN> <SUBJECT>Additions and Modifications to the Entity List</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Bureau of Industry and Security, Department of Commerce. <HD SOURCE="HED">ACTION:</HD> Final rule. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> In this final rule, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding 70 entities to the Entity List, under the destinations of China, People's Republic of (China) (42); Iran (2); Pakistan (19); South Africa (3); and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) (4). These entities have been determined by the U.S. Government to be acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States. This final rule also modifies four existing entries on the Entity List, consisting of revisions to one entry under France, one entry under Iran, one entry under Senegal, and one entry under the United Kingdom. </SUM> <EFFDATE> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> This rule is effective March 28, 2025. </EFFDATE> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Chair, End-User Review Committee, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Export Administration, Bureau of Industry and Security, Department of Commerce, Phone: (202) 482-5991, Email: <E T="03">ERC@bis.doc.gov.</E> </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD2">The Entity List</HD> The Entity List (supplement no. 4 to part 744 of the EAR (15 CFR parts 730-774)) identifies entities for which there is reasonable cause to believe, based on specific and articulable facts, that the entities have been involved, are involved, or pose a significant risk of being or becoming involved in activities contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States, pursuant to § 744.11. The EAR impose additional license requirements on, and limit the availability of, most license exceptions for exports, reexports, and transfers (in-country) when a listed entity is a party to the transaction. The license review policy for each listed entity is identified in the “License Review Policy” column on the Entity List, and the impact on the availability of license exceptions is described in the relevant <E T="04">Federal Register</E> document that added the entity to the Entity List. BIS places entities on the Entity List pursuant to parts 744 (Control Policy: End-User and End-Use Based) and 746 (Embargoes and Other Special Controls) of the EAR. The End-User Review Committee (ERC), composed of representatives of the Departments of Commerce (Chair), State, Defense, Energy and, where appropriate, the Treasury, makes all decisions regarding additions to, removals from, or other modifications to the Entity List. The ERC makes all decisions to add an entry to the Entity List by majority vote and makes all decisions to remove or modify an entry by unanimous vote. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Entity List Decisions</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD2">Additions to the Entity List</HD> The ERC determined to add Britlite Engineering Company; Indentech International; IntraLink Incorporated; Proc-Master; Rehman Engineering and Services; and The Sadidians, all under the destination of Pakistan, to the Entity List. The addition of these entities is made on the basis of their contributions to Pakistan's unsafeguarded nuclear activities. This activity is contrary to the national security and foreign policy of the United States under § 744.11 of the EAR. These six entities require a license for all items subject to the EAR. The ERC determined to add Sine Technologies; Supply Source Co.; Ariston Trade Links; Professional Systems (Pvt) Ltd.; RASTEK Technologies; and NA Enterprises, all under the destination of Pakistan, and Zibo Topred International Trading Company Limited, under the destination of China, to the Entity List. The addition of these entities is made on the basis of their contributions to Pakistan's unsafeguarded nuclear activities. This activity is contrary to the national security and foreign policy of the United States under § 744.11 of the EAR. These seven entities require a license for all items subject to the EAR. The ERC determined to add Allied Business Concerns (Pvt) Ltd; Global Traders; Linkers Automation (Pvt) Ltd; Otto Manufacturing; Potohar Industrial & Trading Concern; Rachna Supplies (Pvt) Ltd; and Resource Enterprises, all under the destination of Pakistan, to the Entity List. The addition of these entities is made on the basis of their contributions to Pakistan's ballistic missile program. This activity is contrary to the national security and foreign policy of the United States under § 744.11 of the EAR. These entities are added to the Entity List, with a license requirement for all items subject to the EAR. License applications for the seven entities will be reviewed under a presumption of denial. The ERC determined to add Scikro (Hong Kong) Instruments Limited and Scikro (Shanghai) Instrument Co., Ltd., both under the destination of China, to the Entity List. These entities are added for acquiring and attempting to acquire U.S.-origin items in support of advancing China's quantum technology capabilities, which has serious ramifications for U.S. national security given the military applications of quantum technologies. Both Scikro (Hong Kong) Instruments Limited and Scikro (Shanghai) Instrument Co., Ltd. have a history of supplying dilution refrigerators, which can be used to significantly improve the cooling capabilities of quantum systems, to Chinese parties on the Entity List as well as defense-related Chinese entities. The actions of these entities meet the criteria for inclusion on the Entity List under § 744.11 of the EAR, as there is reasonable cause to believe, based on specific and articulable facts, that these entities have been involved in activities that are contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States. These entities will be added to the Entity List with a license requirement for all items subject to the EAR and license applications will be reviewed under a presumption of denial. The ERC determined to add Anhui Kehua Sci-Tech Trading Co., Ltd.; Associated Opto-electronics (Chongqing) Co., Ltd.; Chongqing Southwest Integrated Circuit Design Co., Ltd.; ORICAS Import and Export (Beijing) Corporation; and Physike Technology Co., Ltd., all under the destination of China, to the Entity List. These entities are added for acquiring and attempting to acquire U.S.-origin items in support of advancing China's quantum technology capabilities, which has serious ramifications for U.S. national security given the military applications of quantum technologies. The actions of these entities meet the criteria for inclusion on the Entity List under § 744.11 of the EAR, as there is reasonable cause to believe, based on specific and articulable facts, these entities have been involved in activities that are contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States. These entities will be added with a license requirement for all items subject to the EAR and license applications will be reviewed under a presumption of denial. The ERC determined to add Singleton (Suzhou) Electronics Technology Co., Ltd. and Suzhou SIP Hi-Tech Precision Electronics Co., Ltd. under the destination of China, to the Entity List. These entities sell products to Chinese companies who supply Entity List parties, including Huawei and HiSilicon. This activity is contrary to the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States under § 744.11 of the EAR. These entities are added with a license requirement for all items subject to the EAR. License applications for the two entities will be reviewed under a presumption of denial. The ERC determined to add Aeronautics Computing Technique Research Institute; Aerospace Star Technology Application Co., Ltd.; Air Force Engineering University; Beijing Guoke Tianxun Technology Co., Ltd.; Beijing Graphene Institute Co., Ltd; the Chinese Academy of Sciences Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization; Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute; China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology Beijing Institute of Precision Mechatronics Control Equipment; China Aeronautical Radio Electronics Research Institute; Harbin Aerospace Star Data System Technology Co., Ltd.; Jiangxi Hongdu Aviation Industry Group Co., Ltd.; Nanjing Chunhui Technology Industry Co., Ltd.; Nanjing Fiberglass Research and Design Institute; Nanjing Panda Handa Technology Co., Ltd.; National Inspection and Testing Holding Group Nanjing National Materials Testing Co., Ltd.; Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering; Shaanxi Aerospace Science and Technology Co., Ltd.; Shanghai Aviation Electronic Co., Ltd.; Space Star Technology Co., Ltd.; Suzhou Changfeng Avionics Co., Ltd.; Tianjin Aerospace Zhongwei Data System Technology Co., Ltd.; Xi'an Aerospace Automation Co., Ltd.; Xi'an Aerospace Tianhui Data Technology Co., Ltd.; Xi'an Sunward Aeromat Co., Ltd.; Xi'an Xiangteng Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.; Xi'an Xiangxun Technology Co., Ltd.; and Zhejiang Aerospace Hengjia Data Technology Co., Ltd., all under the destination of China, to the Entity List. These entities are added for acquiring or attempting to acquire U.S.-origin items in support of China's military modernization. These entities have demonstrable ties to activities of concern, including hypersonic weapons development, the design and modeling of vehicles in hypersonic flight, or using proprietary software to model weapons design and effects, or have otherwise supported China's military-civil fusion efforts. This activity is co ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 80k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━