On 26 December 2023, Chinaâs Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced new sanctions measures under the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law against the following parties for their involvement in the imposition of US restrictive measures on Chinese entities over their links to alleged human rights abuses in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region: The sanctioned parties are prohibited from entering China (including mainland and the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative regions). In addition, all properties (including movable and…
Chinaâs Export Control Law (âECLâ) came into effect on 1 December 2020, providing a framework to a series of separate administrative regulations on export controls issued prior to the lawâs enactment. While no implementing rules or regulations under the ECL have been enacted since its passage into law, Chinaâs Ministry of Commerce (âMOFCOMâ) recently released Announcement No. 10 of 2021, on âInternal Compliance Guidelines on the Export of Dual-Use Itemsâ (hereafter, the âGuidelinesâ) pursuant to…
On December 23, 2020, the Commerce Departmentâs Bureau of Industry and Security (âBISâ) amended the Export Administration Regulations (âEARâ), in further implementation of Executive Order 13936 (âEO 13936â), to remove provisions that provide differential and preferential treatment for exports, reexports, and transfers of items to Hong Kong as compared to China. As a result of these changes, Hong Kong will be removed as a separate destination on the Commerce Country Chart and in other places…
On August 27, 2020, the US Commerce Departmentâs Bureau of Industry and Security (âBISâ) issued a final rule (âFinal Ruleâ) adding 24 Chinese state-owned entities to the Entity List (the âSCS Designeesâ), including several subsidiaries of China Communications Construction Company (âCCCCâ), due to their ties to land reclamation efforts involving artificial islands in the South China Sea. In a press statement released with the designations, the Commerce Department cited the role played by the SCS…