WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Commerce Department said Friday it is adding 42 Chinese companies to a government export control list over support for Russia’s military and defense industrial base.
Entities placed on the list supplied Russian firms linked to the Russian defense sector with U.S.-origin integrated circuits, the department said. Commerce said it is adding another seven entities in total from Finland, Germany, India, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.
(Reporting by David Shepardson, Karen Freifeld and Mike Stone)