The United States Department of Commerce published a list of 103 Russian and Chinese companies and enterprises with alleged military ties which it bans from purchasing a number of U.S. goods and technologies on Dec. 21. The list includes 58 Chinese and 45 Russian entities, including the Admiralty Shipyard (part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation), the United Aircraft Corporation, the Federal State Budgetary Enterprise Special Flight Unit Rossiya of the Administration of the President of Russia, the Irkut Corporation, Oboronprom, Rostec, Russian Helicopters, Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, Tupolev JSC, JSC Rocket and Space Center-Progress, and institutes of the Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation. The Chinese companies on the list are of the same sort.
“The U.S. Government has determined that these companies are ‘military end users’ for purposes of the ‘military end user’ control in the EAR [Export Administration Regulations] that applies to specified items for exports, reexports, or transfers (in-country) to the China [sic], Russia, and Venezuela when such items are destined for a prohibited ‘military end user,’” the statement said.
Some of the Russian companies and entities on the new blacklist had already been targeted by various U.S. sanctions and restrictions.
