BIS Aims to Bolster Russian Sanctions Through Additions to Entity List

September 1, 2015 |Commerce Dept.

The Commerce Department added 29 companies under 33 entries to the Entity List (here). The list, administered by Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security, informs the public of entities that have allegedly engaged in activities that could facilitate the spread of weapons of mass destruction. BIS requires license for exports to these entities, but the agency typically denies license requests. License exceptions for transactions with companies and individuals on the Entity List are very rare, the agency says.

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BIS made the additions to the list in order to ensure the effectiveness of U.S. sanctions against Russia, it said. The agency added the following entries to the Entity List:

Crimea

State Enterprise Evpatoria Sea Commercial Port
State Enterprise Feodosia Sea Trading Port,
State Enterprise Kerch Sea Commercial Port
State Enterprise Sevastopol Sea Trading Port
State Enterprise Yalta Sea Trading Port
State Shipping Company Kerch Sea Ferry

Cyprus

IPP Oil Products (Cyprus)
Rosneft Trade
Southport Management Services Limited

Finland

Airfix Aviation
Set Petrochemicals
Southeast Trading

Romania

Southeast Trading

Russia

CJSC Vankorneft
Izhevsky Mekhanichesky Zavod
Neft-Aktiv
OJSC Achinsk Refinery
OJSC Angarsk Petrochemical
OJSC Kuybyshev Refinery
OJSC Novokuybyshev Refinery
OJSC Orenburgneft
OJSC RN Holding
OJSC Samotlorneftegaz
OJSC Syzran Refinery
Open Joint Stock Company Kontsern Izhmash
PJSC Verkhnechonskneftegaz
RN-Komsomolsky Refinery
RN-Yuganskneftegaz
Southeast Trading

Switzerland

Airfix Aviation
Rosneft Trading

Ukraine

Private Joint-Stock Company Mako Holding
United Kingdom
Southport Management Services

(Federal Register 09/02/15)