The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security said on Sept. 29 it is changing export control rules to automatically cover subsidiaries of companies on the Entity List that are at least 50 percent owned by the listed company.
The change, which goes into effect 60 days after the rule is published in the Federal Register on Sept. 30, tightens a significant loophole that lawmakers and experts have flagged over the past several years.
As strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese communist regime heightened over the past two administrations, both the Trump and Biden administrations have increasingly made use of and expanded export controls on advanced technologies to China, especially those with military applications. Export controls previously only excluded entities that were specifically listed….