Commerce
Department Will Publish the First Military End User List
Naming More Than 100 Chinese and Russian Companies
WASHINGTON – The Bureau of Industry and Security
(BIS) will amend the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding a new
‘Military End User’ (MEU) List, as well as the first tranche of 103 entities,
which includes 58 Chinese and 45 Russian companies. The U.S. Government has
determined that these companies are ‘military end users’ for purposes of the
‘military end user’ control in the EAR that applies to specified items for
exports, reexports, or transfers (in-country) to the China, Russia, and
Venezuela when such items are destined for a prohibited ‘military end user.’
“This
action establishes a new process to designate military end users on the MEU
List to assist exporters in screening their customers for military end users,”
said Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. “The Department recognizes the
importance of leveraging its partnerships with U.S. and global companies to
combat efforts by China and Russia to divert U.S. technology for their
destabilizing military programs, including by highlighting red flag indicators
such as those related to Communist Chinese military companies identified by the
Department of Defense.”
The MEU
List informs exporters, reexporters, and transferors that a license will be
required to export, reexport, or transfer (in-country) designated items to
listed entities. The U.S. Government has determined that these entities represent
an unacceptable risk of use in or diversion to a ‘military end use’ or
‘military end user’ in China, Russia, or Venezuela.
Commerce
is taking this action, which is scheduled to go on public display at the
Federal Register on December 22, to respond to requests received from the
public to identify specific ‘military end users’ by name and address in the
regulations. The MEU List supports the export community by identifying military
end users known to the U.S. Government, improving the effectiveness of military
end-use and military end-user controls.
Importantly,
this is a non-exhaustive list, and does not imply that other parties not
included on the list are exempt from regulatory prohibitions. For example,
parties not listed on the MEU List but included on the Department of Defense’s
Section 1237 list of the National Defense Authorization Act would raise a Red
Flag under the EAR and require additional due diligence by exporters,
reexporters, or transferors.
While
the initial MEU list includes 103 companies, additional parties may be added or
deleted from the MEU List pursuant to a determination made by the End-User
Review Committee, the interagency body composed of Commerce, and the
Departments of Defense, Energy, State, and, where appropriate, the Treasury.
This
final rule will add the following 103 entities to the MEU List:
China
- Academy
of Aerospace Solid Propulsion Technology
(AASPT);
- The
following eight subordinate institutions of Aero-Engine Company of China:
AECC Aero Science & Technology Co. Ltd.; AECC Aviation Power Co. Ltd.;
AECC Beijing Institute of Aeronautical. Materials; AECC China Gas Turbine
Establishment; AECC Commercial Aircraft Engine Co. Ltd.; AECC Harbin
Dongan Engine Co., Ltd.; AECC Shenyang Liming Aero Engine Co., Ltd.; and
AECC South Industry Company
Limited;
- Anhui
Yingliu Hangyuan
Power;
- The
following seven subordinate institutions of Aviation Industry Corporation
of China:
AVIC Aircraft Co. Ltd.; AVIC Chengdu Aircraft Industrial (GROUP) Co.,
Ltd.; AVIC Flight Automatic Control Research Institute (FACRI); AVIC
General Aircraft Huanan Industry Co. Ltd.; AVIC General Aircraft Zhejiang
Institute Co., Ltd.; AVIC International Holding Corporation; AVIC Leihua
Electronic Technology Research Institute (LETRI);
- Baimtec
Material Co.,
Ltd.;
- Beijing
Aero Lever Precision
Ltd.;
- Beijing
Ander Tech. Co.,
Ltd.;
- Beijing
Guang Ming Electronics Co.,
Ltd.;
- Beijing
Siyuan Electronic Co.,
Ltd.;
- CAST
Xi’an Spaceflight Engine
Factory;
- Chengdu
Holy Aviation Science &
Tech;
- China
Aviation Ind. Std.
Parts;
- CSSC
Xijiang Shipbuilding Co.,
Ltd.;
- Elink
Electronic Technology Co.,
Ltd.;
- Fly
Raise International Limited;
- Fuhua
Precision Man.
Co.;
- Government
Flying
Service;
- Guangzhou
Hangxin Aviation Technology Co.,
Ltd.;
- Guizhou
Aviation Tech. Dev.
Nat.;
- Guizhou
Liyang Intl Manufacturing Co.,
Ltd.;
- Hafei
Aviation Industry Co., Ltd.
(HAFEI);
- Hangzhou
Bearing Test & Research Center Co.,
Ltd.;
- Harbin
General Aircraft Industry Co., Ltd.;
- Henan
Aerospace Precision
Mach;
- Hunan
South General Aviation Engine Co.,
Ltd.;
- Hutchison
Optel Telecom Technology Co.,
Ltd.;
- Jiangsu
Meilong Aviation Components
Co.;
- Jiatai
Aircraft Equipment Co.,
Ltd.;
- Jincheng
Group Imp & Exp. Co.,
Ltd.;
- Laboratory
of Toxicant Analysis, Institute of Pharmacology and
Toxicology;
- Molecular
Devices Shanghai Corporation;
- Nanjing
Engineering Institute of Aircraft Systems
(NEIAS);
- National
Satellite Meteorological
Bureau;
- Second
Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural
Resources;
- Shaanxi
Aero Electric Co.,
Ltd.;
- Shaanxi
Aircaft Industry Co.,
Ltd.;
- Shanghai
Aerospace Equip. Man.;
- Shanghai
Aircraft Design and Research
Institute;
- Shanghai
Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
(SAMC);
- Shanghai
Tianlang Electronic Science Co., Ltd.;
- Shenyang
Academy of Instrumentation Science Co.,
Ltd.;
- Shenyang
Aircraft
Corporation;
- Shenyang
Xizi Aviation Industry Co.,
Ltd.;
- Sichuan
Hangte Aviation Tech. Co.,
Ltd.;
- Star
Tech Aviation Co.,
Ltd.;
- Sumec
Instruments Equipment Co.,
Ltd.;
- Suzhou
Eric Mechanics and Electronics Co.,
Ltd.;
- Wuxi
Hyatech Co.,
Ltd.;
- Wuxi
Paike New Mat. Tech. Co.,
Ltd.;
- Wuxi
Turbine Blade Co.
Ltd.;
- Xac
Group Aviation Electronics Import & Export Co.
Ltd.;
- XAIC
Tech (Xi’an) Industrial Co.,
Ltd.;
- Xian
Aero-Engine Controls Co.,
Ltd.;
- Xian
Aircraft Industrial Company
Limited;
- Xi’an
Xae Flying Aviation Manufacturing Technology Co.,
Ltd.;
- Xian
Xr Aero- Components Co.,
Ltd.;
- Yibin
Sanjiang Machine Co., Ltd.;
and
- Zhejiang
Perfect New Material Co., Ltd.
Russia
- Admiralty
Shipyard JSC;
- Aleksandrov
Scientific Research Technological Institute NITI;
- Argut
OOO;
- Communication
center of the Ministry of
Defense;
- Federal
Research Center Boreskov Institute of
Catalysis;
- Federal
State Budgetary Enterprise of the Administration of the President of
Russia;
- Federal
State Budgetary Enterprise Special Flight Unit Rossiya of the
Administration of the President of Russia;
- Federal
State Unitary Enterprise Dukhov Automatics Research Institute
(VNIIA);
- Foreign
Intelligence Service (SVR);
- Forensic
Center of Nizhniy Novgorod Region Main Directorate of the Ministry of
Interior Affairs;
- Irkut
Co.;
- Irkut
Research and Production Corporation Public Joint Stock
Company;
- Joint
Stock Company Scientific Research Institute of Computing
Machinery;
- JSC
Central Research Institute of Machine Building (JSC TsNIIMash);
- JSC
Rocket and Space Centre – Progress;
- Kamensk-Uralsky
Metallurgical Works J.S. Co.;
- Kazan
Helicopter Plant
PJSC;
- Komsomolsk-na-Amur
Aviation Production Organization (KNAAPO);
- Korporatsiya
Vsmpo Avisma
OAO;
- Ministry
of Defence RF;
- Molot
Oruzhie;
- NPO
High Precision Systems JSC;
- NPO
Splav JSC;
- Oboronprom
OJSC;
- PJSC
Beriev Aircraft Company;
- PJSC
Irkut
Corporation;
- PJSC
Kazan
Helicopters;
- POLYUS
Research Institute of M.F. Stelmakh Joint Stock
Company;
- Promtech-Dubna,
JSC;
- Public
Joint Stock Company United Aircraft
Corporation;
- Radiotechnical
and Information Systems (RTI) Concern;
- Rapart
Services
LLC;
- Rosoboronexport
OJSC (ROE);
- Rostec
(Russian Technologies State Corporation);
- Rostekh
–
Azimuth;
- Russian
Aircraft Corporation MiG;
- Russian
Helicopters JSC;
- Sukhoi
Aviation JSC;
- Sukhoi
Civil
Aircraft;
- Tactical
Missiles Corporation JSC;
- Tupolev
JSC;
- UEC-Saturn;
- United
Aircraft Corporation;
- United
Engine Corporation; and
- United
Instrument Manufacturing Corporation.
For more information, visit
www.bis.doc.gov.
