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US May Add More Chinese Companies to Exports Blacklist

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the US was working to “get information around bad actors in China and adding those companies to the Entity List” to restrict their access to US exports


Defending the response to inflation, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the US may lift China tariffs to slow consumer price rises.
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. File photo: Andrew Harnik, pool via Reuters.

 

The US may add more Chinese companies to the entity list, an economic blacklist, as it probes Beijing’s alleged efforts to skirt US sanctions, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said.

The Commerce Department‘s Entity List restricts access to US exports.

Raimondo told reporters the Biden administration was working to “get information around bad actors in China and adding those companies to the Entity List … We are in the middle of a number of investigations.”

She added: “I don’t see us relaxing sanctions any time soon.”

China is not standing still, she said. “They are coming up with we know new ways to evade our sanctions, setting up new (companies) and the like. We have a very aggressive and vigilant effort under way.”

She said when possible she wants to work with US allies to align their trade restrictions with US export controls.

The Trump administration aggressively used the Entity List, adding dozens of Chinese companies including Huawei in 2019. It also added chipmaker SMIC and Chinese drone manufacturer DJI in 2020 to the exports blacklist.

 

US Economic Blacklist

The Biden administration has extended that policy and in November put a dozen Chinese companies on the Entity List over national security and foreign policy concerns, in some cases citing their help in developing the Chinese military’s quantum computing efforts.

In December, Commerce added China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences and its 11 research institutes to the economic blacklist.

Raimondo cited a recent report that Apple was considering moving some production out of China.

“I’ve heard that same thing from numerous other American manufacturing companies, many of whom have been manufacturing in China for decades,” she said.

In February, the Commerce Department added 33 Chinese entities to its “unverified list” which requires US exporters to go through more procedures before shipping goods to the entities.

China’s embassy in Washington said last year the US “uses the catch-all concept of national security and abuses state power to suppress and restrict Chinese enterprises in all possible means.”

 

  • Reuters with additional editing by Jim Pollard

 

 

 

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.