Additions and Revisions to the Entity List

<RULE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>Bureau of Industry and Security</SUBAGY> <CFR>15 CFR Part 744</CFR> <DEPDOC>[Docket No. 250912-0152]</DEPDOC> <RIN>RIN 0694-AK26</RIN> <SUBJECT>Additions and Revisions 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 rule, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding 32 entities to the Entity List. These entries are listed on the Entity List under the destination of China, People's Republic of (China) (23), India, (1), Iran (1), Singapore (1), Taiwan (1), Turkey (3), and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) (2). 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 revises an entry by removing two addresses from one entity under the destination of Russia. Finally, this rule amends 27 existing entries on the Entity List to correct typographical errors under the following destinations: Belarus (3), China (11), Iran (1), Pakistan (1), Russia (9), and Turkey (2). </SUM> <EFFDATE> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> This rule is effective September 12, 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> 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(b). The EAR imposes additional license requirements on, and limits 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. The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) places entities on the Entity List pursuant to part 744 (Control Policy: End-User and End-Use Based) and part 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 decisions regarding additions to, removals from, or other modifications to the Entity List. The ERC makes decisions to add an entry to the Entity List by majority vote and makes decisions to remove or modify an entry by unanimous vote. <HD SOURCE="HD2">Additions to the Entity List</HD> The ERC determined to add the Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Time Service Center, under the destination of China, to the Entity List. This entity is being added for acquiring and attempting to acquire U.S.-origin items in support of advancing China's military and defense-related space-domain activities, as well as China's quantum technology capabilities; these actions have serious ramifications for U.S. national security, given the military applications of quantum technologies. This entity will be added with a license requirement for all items subject to the EAR and licenses will be reviewed under a presumption of denial. The ERC determined to add Beijing Fudan Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.; Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Co., Ltd.; Shenzhen Fudan Microelectronics Co., Ltd.; Shanghai Fukong Hualong Microsystem Technology Co., Ltd.; Shanghai Fuwei Xunjie Digital Technology Co., Ltd.; and Sino IC Technology Co., Ltd., under the destination of China, and Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics (HK) Co., Ltd. under the destinations of China, Singapore, and Taiwan, to the Entity List. These entities are added for acquiring and attempting to acquire U.S.-origin items in support of China's military modernization, for participating in China's advanced computing and integrated circuit manufacturing and distribution sectors, and directly supplying the military, government, and security apparatus of China. These entities are added with a license requirement for all items subject to the EAR. They are added with a license review policy of presumption of denial. The ERC has further determined that Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Co., Ltd. and Sino IC Technology Co., Ltd. will receive a footnote 4 designation. These entities are involved in the production of high-performance computing (HPC) chips, including for artificial intelligence and other dual-use applications. Additionally, Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Co., Ltd. has supplied technology to Russian military end users. For purposes of the license requirements applicable to these entities, “items subject to the EAR” include foreign-produced items described in § 734.9(e)(2) of the EAR. The ERC determined to add AR Sales Pvt Ltd., under the destination of India, to the Entity List. This addition is being made because the entity has diverted or attempted to divert U.S.-origin items to Russia without prior authorization from BIS. In addition, the entity has engaged in dilatory, evasive, or misleading behavior regarding the importation of U.S.-origin items that effectively prevented end-use checks (EUCs) from occurring or made the EUCs inaccurate. A license is required for all items subject to the EAR. License applications will be reviewed under a presumption of denial. The ERC determined to add Atempo Proje Taahhüt Ses ve Görüntü Sistemleri Anonim Şirketi İstanbul Şubesi (Atempo); EB Teknoloji Sistemleri Anonım Şirketi (EB Teknoloji); and Dentun Elektronik, all under the destination of Turkey, to the Entity List. These companies have diverted or attempted to divert controlled U.S.-origin items to Russia without prior authorization from BIS. Dentun Elektronik has exported U.S.-origin Common High Priority List (CHPL) electronics to Russia and repeatedly engaged in evasive and dilatory conduct that prevented a BIS EUC from occurring. Moreover, EB Teknoloji, in conjunction with Atempo, is engaged in concealing shipments of Tier 2 CHPL U.S.-origin goods to Russian entities. These items are primarily electronic components that have been retrieved from Russian weapons found on the battlefield or have been identified as essential items for Russia to manufacture its own military equipment. The ERC has determined that, due to their significant risk of involvement in the supply or diversion of items subject to the EAR to procurement networks for Russia's defense industry or intelligence services, two of these entities, Atempo and EB Teknoloji, qualify as Russian Procurement Entities under § 734.9(g) of the EAR and are receiving a footnote 3 designation. A footnote 3 designation subjects these entities to the Russia/Belarus-Military End User and Procurement FDP rule, detailed in § 734.9(g). These entities are added with a license requirement for all items subject to the EAR. These applications will be reviewed under a policy of denial. The ERC determined to add one entity to the Entity List: Smart Mail Services under the destinations of Iran and the United Arab Emirates. This addition is being made because the U.S. government has identified this entity as a facilitator of the illicit transshipment network of Hossein Hatefi Ardakani. The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Ardakani on December 19, 2023, for having provided, or attempted to provide, financial, material, technological or other support for, or goods or services in support of, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force Self Sufficiency Jihad Organization. A license is required for all items subject to the EAR. License applications will be reviewed under a presumption of denial. The ERC determined to add Hua Ke Supply Chain (HK) Limited; Hua Ke Logistics (HK) Limited; and Shenzhen Xinlikang Supply Chain Management Co., Limited, under the destination of China, to the Entity List. These entities are added for their involvement in the diversion of dual-use items in support of sanctioned entities, including the Iranian military. These entities will be added with a license requirement for all items subject to the EAR and licenses will be reviewed under a presumption of denial. The ERC determined to add HAS General Trading LLC, under the destination of the UAE, to the Entity List for engaging in the export and attempted export of items on the Commerce Control List (CCL) from the U.S. to Iran and Russia through the UAE, in apparent violation of the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (ITSR, 31 CFR part 560) and the EAR. The entity is added with a license requirement for all items subject to the EAR. License applications will be reviewed with a presumption of denial. The ERC determined to add Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the destination of China, to the Entity List. Specifically, this entity is being added for its connections to companies that support China's High Altitude Balloon program. This entity will be added with a license requirement for all items subject to the EAR and licenses will be reviewed under a presumption of denial. Licenses will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis for items for U.S ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 87k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━