Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) revised its Foreign End-User List, the reference list of foreign organisations for which concern cannot be eliminated regarding involvement in the development of weapons of mass destruction and missiles, used to support catch-all export-licence requirements. The revision added 42 entities, taking the list to 748 entities from 15 countries and regions, and applies from 5 February 2025.

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Mechanism

The End-User List is a non-binding reference list, not an embargo list. Under Japan's catch-all export-control regime, an exporter shipping goods to a listed entity should treat the destination as one for which concern cannot be eliminated and seek METI clearance. This revision adds 42 entities. Global Trade Alert tags China, Chinese Taipei and Hong Kong as affected jurisdictions; the per-country split of the 42 additions was not confirmed from the primary text and is not stated here.

Backfilled from the historical queue. The METI page was confirmed via search; a direct fetch from this host returned HTTP 403, so figures are limited to those in the METI announcement summary (+42, 748 total, 15 countries/regions, applied 2025-02-05).

Downstream implications

Later list revisions and the October 2025 catch-all overhaul build on this list: see 2025-09-29-japan-meti-foreign-end-user-list-revision.

Sources

Primary: METI press release (English) — Review of the End User List

Secondary: Global Trade Alert — intervention 142999

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