WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Monday imposed new trade restrictions on 11 Chinese and five Russian companies, accusing some of them of supplying components to make drones for the effort Russian war in Ukraine.
The US Commerce Department has added a total of 28 new companies, including Finnish and German groups, to its trade blacklist, making it harder for US suppliers to export technology to these companies.
Nine of these companies, including the Chinese company Asia Pacific Links and the Russian company SMT-iLogic, already targeted by a first series of American sanctions in May, would have participated in a project aimed at supplying the Special Technology Center based in Saint Petersburg and previously blacklisted drone parts intended for the General Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU).
The companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Six more Chinese entities have been added to the list for supplying aerospace equipment to the Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Company, which uses it to make drones used by Iran to attack oil tankers in the Middle East and by Russia in its war in Ukraine, according to the Commerce Department.
(Reporting David Shepardson and Alexandra Alper, Corentin Chappron)
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