BIS Issues Denial Order for 3 More Russian Airlines
The Bureau of Industry and Security on June 24 suspended the export privileges of three Russian airlines for violating U.S. export controls against Belarus. The agency issued 180-day temporary denial orders for Nordwind Airlines, Pobeda Airlines and Siberian Airlines, BIS said, banning all three airlines from participating in transactions subject to the Export Administration Regulations.
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BIS said each of the airlines illegally operated multiple aircraft subject to the EAR and classified under Export Control Classification Number 9A991. The planes were used on a range of international flights to Russia, including from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. BIS said all the flights required export licenses and violated BIS’s Russia-related foreign direct product rule. The denial orders contain information on each of the illegal flights, including the aircraft’s tail numbers, serial numbers, departure and arrival cities, the type of planes and the flight dates.
BIS said it expects all the airlines to continue violating the EAR. Pobeda’s website continues to advertise flights from Moscow to other Russian cities, BIS said, and Nordwind’s website says it can fly to more than 200 destinations and operates 500 flights weekly. Siberian Airlines, also called S7 airlines, will likely try to evade U.S. export controls to obtain new aircraft parts to service its existing aircraft in Russia, BIS said.
BIS in recent weeks has issued temporary denial orders against several Russian planes and airlines, including Rossiya Airlines (see 2205200008), Aviastar (see 2204210043) and Aeroflot, Azur Air and UTair (see 2204070012). The agency also issued its first denial order for a Belarusian airline earlier this month (see 2206160015). “Today’s actions make a total of eight different Russian airlines that are now cut off from the parts, components, and maintenance services they need to sustain operations -- all because they continued to violate those restrictions,” BIS Undersecretary Alan Estevez said.
The agency also updated tail numbers on its list of restricted aircraft. The list currently has 159 Russian and Belarusian planes.