BIS to Release First Tranche of MEU List
The Bureau of Industry and Security plans to officially release the first tranche of its military end-user list (see 2012080046) Dec. 22, naming 103 companies that require licenses to receive certain U.S. exports, reexports or transfers. The first tranche will include 58 Chinese and 45 Russian companies that represent an “unacceptable risk of use in or diversion to” a military end-use or military end-user in China, Russia or Venezuela, the Commerce Department said Dec. 21.
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The list will supplement BIS’s April rule that increased license requirements for exports to certain military end-users and for certain end-uses (see 2004270027), which has caused compliance and due diligence challenges for U.S. companies that struggle to weave through opaque ownership chains in China and other countries (see 2007090075). Commerce said it decided to release the list after receiving requests from industry to issue names and addresses of specific military end-users that are captured by the rule. Commerce hopes it helps U.S. exporters better screen their customers, Secretary Wilbur Ross said.
“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,” Ross said.
Commerce called the list “non-exhaustive,” saying companies that are not on the list but included on similar lists released by the Defense Department earlier this year (see 2012040008) will also “raise a red flag” and “require additional due diligence.” The agency also said it may add or delete companies from the list based on decisions made by the interagency End-User Review Committee.
The list will include the following entities:
- 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; and 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.
- Zhejiang Perfect New Material Co., Ltd.
- 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
- United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation.