Additions to the Entity List

<RULE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>Bureau of Industry and Security</SUBAGY> <CFR>15 CFR Part 744</CFR> <DEPDOC>[Docket No. 250929-0163]</DEPDOC> <RIN>RIN 0694-AK05</RIN> <SUBJECT>Additions 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 29 entries (26 entities and 3 addresses) to the Entity List under the destinations of People's Republic of China (China) (19), Turkey (9), and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) (1). 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. </SUM> <EFFDATE> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> This rule is effective October 8, 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 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. 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. Entity List license requirements and other Entity List restrictions also apply to any foreign entity that is owned, directly or indirectly, individually or in aggregate, 50 percent or more by one or more listed entities. Exclusions to this rule will be identified by specifying in the relevant entry on the Entity List that the 50 percent ownership rule does not apply to any foreign affiliate owned by a particular listed entity or that a specific foreign affiliate is excluded. For any foreign entity that is owned, directly or indirectly, individually or in aggregate, 50 percent or more by one or more listed entities with different Entity List license requirements, the most restrictive of those Entity List license requirements apply to that foreign entity. If an exporter, reexporter, or transferor cannot determine the ownership percentage of a foreign entity that is an entity owned by one or more listed entities, they must resolve the Red Flag or obtain a license from BIS prior to proceeding with the export, reexport, or transfer (in-country), unless a license exception is available (see Red Flag 29 in supplement no. 3 to part 732). 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="HD2">Additions to the Entity List</HD> The ERC determined to add Goodview Global, under the destination of China, to the Entity List. This entity is part of an illicit procurement network that supplies components, including UAV components, to front companies of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Qods Force (IRGC-QF). In 2007, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the IRGC-QF pursuant to E.O. 13224, <E T="03">Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists,</E> for providing material support to the Taliban and other terrorist organizations. The illicit procurement of UAV and other component parts and the supplying of those parts to IRGC-QF-affiliated companies is contrary to the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States under § 744.11 of the EAR. This entity is 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 Atadoruk Havacilik Savunma Sanayi Ticaret Limited Sirketi; Business Metal Sanayi Ve Dis Ticaret Limited Sirketi; DBC Makina Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.; Ercetin Is Makinalari Yedek Parcalari Insaat Ve Dis Ticaret Limited Sirketi; PMR Teknik Makine Ticaret Limited Sirketi; UMS Ankara Kalibrasyon Mühendislik Müusavirlik Mümessillik Sanayi Ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi; and Yant Insaat Gida Turizm Sanayi Dis Ticaret Limited Sirketi, under the destination of Turkey, to the Entity List. These additions are being made based on information indicating that these companies divert U.S.-origin items to Iran, including to parties on the BIS Entity List and on OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List. Iran has been subject to comprehensive sanctions and export controls by the United States for decades and, pursuant to § 746.7 of the EAR, most items on the Commerce Control List, and certain EAR99 items, require a license or other authorization from BIS for export, reexport, or in-country transfer to or within Iran. The diversion of U.S.-origin items in contravention of these controls is contrary to U.S. national security and foreign policy interests under § 744.11 of the EAR. 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 TGB Aviation, under the destination of Turkey, to the Entity List. This entity is associated with the transshipment of U.S.-origin aircraft components into Iran. This transshipment network is connected to Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industries (HESA), an entity designated by the OFAC as an SDN. This activity is contrary to the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States under § 744.11 of the EAR. 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 Sisdoz Aritma Ve Pompa Teknolojileri Sanayi Ticaret Anonim Sirketi, under the destination of Turkey, and Royal Impact Trading L.L.C., under the destination of the UAE, to the Entity List. These additions are being made because these entities have diverted U.S.-origin items to Iran, including items classified under Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) 2B350. Iran has been subject to comprehensive sanctions and export controls by the United States for decades, including pursuant to § 746.7 of the EAR. Most items on the Commerce Control List, and certain EAR99 items, require a license or other authorization from BIS for export, reexport, or in-country transfer to or within Iran. Diversion of U.S.-origin items in contravention of these controls is contrary to U.S. national security and foreign policy interests under § 744.11 of the EAR. A license is required for all items subject to the EAR, and license applications will be reviewed under a presumption of denial. The ERC determined to add Arrow China Electronics Trading Co., Ltd.; Arrow Electronics (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.; Beijing Kevins Technology Development Co., Ltd.; Beijing Plenary Technology Co., Ltd.; Beijing Rageflight Technology Co., Ltd.; Gansu Shuili Hoisting Equipment Co., Ltd.; Jinan Xin Yin Bo Electronic Equipment Co. Ltd.; Schmidt & Co., (HK) Ltd.; Shangdong Xin Yin Bo IOT Technology Co. Ltd.; and Shanghai Sisheng Power Control Technology Co., Ltd., under the destination of China, to the Entity List. Since 2017, nations located in the Gulf and Middle East regions have recovered numerous weaponized unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operated by Iranian proxies, including Houthi militants. Exploitation of the recovered UAS debris identified multiple U.S.-origin electronic components. The addition of these ten entities is based on information indicating that these entities facilitated the purchase of some of these electronic components. These activities are contrary to the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States. These entities are 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 five entities to the Entity List under the destination of China: Easy Fly Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd; Feng Bao Trading Hong Kong Ltd; Feng Bao Electronic Information Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd; Shanghai Bitconn Electronics Co., Ltd.; and Shanghai Langqing Electronic Technology Co. These additions are being made based on information indicating that around October 7, 2023, Israel Defense Forces recovered numerous weaponized unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs) operated by Iranian proxies, including Hamas militants. Exploitation of the recovered UAV debris identified multiple U.S.-origin electronic components. Information indicates that these entiti ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 45k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━