Bloomberg Quotes Kevin Wolf on Chinese Tech Co’s and Entity List

For its article “U.S. Imposes Restrictions on Exports to China’s Top Chipmaker,” Bloomberg quoted Akin Gump international trade partner Kevin Wolf on trade restrictions being imposed by the U.S. government on Chinese companies.

The article reports that the U.S. imposed export restrictions on Chinese technology company Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), which will compel U.S. companies to apply for a license to export certain products to SMIC. Bloomberg writes that the U.S. Department of Commerce noted that SMIC and its subsidiaries represent an “unacceptable risk of diversion to a military end use.” According to the article, SMIC has not been put on the U.S.’s Entity List, administered by the Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), which means that restrictions on the Chinese company are not as severe as those imposed on Huawei Technologies.

Wolf, who served in the Obama administration as BIS’s Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, said, “The military end-use rules only apply to a subset of listed U.S. origin items. The Entity List rules apply to all U.S. origin and some foreign-origin items.”