EXPORT CONTROL

The recent placement on the Specially Designated Nationals List of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corporation poses a serious risk to cotton supply chains. The Office of Foreign Assets Control may consider any transaction by a covered person that directly or indirectly benefits XPCC as a violation of these sanctions, including apparel-related transactions made anywhere in the world that contain XPCC cotton. More

The Bureau of Industry and Security has added to the Entity List 11 mainland Chinese companies that are alleged to be implicated in human rights violations and abuses in the implementation of mainland China’s “campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, forced labor, involuntary collection of biometric data, and genetic analyses targeted at Muslim minority groups from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region”. More

On 15 June, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced a new interim final rule to ensure that Huawei’s placement on the Entity List in May 2019 does not prevent American companies from contributing to standards-developing activities. More

Exports to mainland China, Russia and certain other economies, particularly of goods in the high-technology, electronics and telecommunications sectors, will be further restricted under new rules issued this week by the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security. More