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Commerce Releases List of Restricted Military End Users in China and Russia, Changes Hong Kong’s Status Under U.S. Export Administration Regulations Wednesday, December 23, 2020
On December 21, 2020, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added 102 Chinese and Russian companies to a new restricted “Military End User” (MEU) list in the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Separately, BIS removed the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) from the list of destinations in the EAR to reflect that it will now be treated in the same manner for export control purposes as mainland China, completing a series of changes first reported in July 2020. These rules, according to the pre-publication versions (MEU list, Hong Kong SAR removal), are to take effect when published in the Federal Register on December 23, 2020.