BIS Targets Entities Supporting Russia, Issues New Chemical Weapons Controls
The Bureau of Industry and Security will add more than 40 entries to the Entity List for shipping sensitive items to Russia or for other activities that support Russia’s military, and it will tighten restrictions on nearly 50 entities already on the list that BIS said are procuring U.S.-branded microelectronics for Russia, the agency said in a final rule released Oct. 30. BIS also plans to introduce new chemical weapons-related controls for certain chemical precursors that Russia has used in chemical weapons against Ukraine, it said in a separate final rule.
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Both rules take effect Nov. 1. The parties and addresses added to the Entity List are located in China, India, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore and Turkey. The modified Entity List entries, located in China, Estonia, Finland, India, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the U.K., will be subject to the BIS Russia/Belarus-Military End User and Procurement Foreign Direct Product rule. All the entities will be subject to license requirements for all items subject to the Export Administration Regulations, and licenses will be reviewed either under a presumption of denial or a policy of denial, with certain exceptions for food and medicine designated as EAR99, which will be reviewed case by case.