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MOFCOM's Announcement No. 35 (2025) names 8 Taiwan-registered entities and adds them to the Dual-Use Items Export Control List established under the State Council's October 2024 Regulations on Export Control of Dual-Use Items (Decree No. 792) and operationalising the 2020 Export Control Law. Chinese exporters are prohibited from supplying dual-use items to the listed entities; any export activity already underway to them must be halted immediately, and further exports require a case-by-case MOFCOM license under the regulation's exceptional-circumstances provision.
The named entities cluster around Taiwan's indigenous defense-industrial base: AIDC (military and civil aircraft/engines), GEOSAT (drones/UAVs), NCSIST (Taiwan's principal state defense R&D institute — missiles, UAVs, munitions), JC Technology, and three shipyards — CSBC Corporation Taiwan, Jong Shyn Shipbuilding, and Lungteh Shipbuilding — all linked to Taiwan's naval shipbuilding and indigenous submarine programs. This mirrors the mechanism used in China's earlier Unreliable Entity List Taiwan-arms actions (6-firm listing April 2025, 3-firm listing September 2025) but operates through the dual-use export control list rather than the UEL, targeting the Taiwan-side defense supply chain directly rather than foreign arms contractors.
dual-use export control architecture (Decree 792 / Announcement 51 of 2024) as a retaliatory instrument against Taiwan's defense-industrial base, distinct from but parallel to the Unreliable Entity List actions against US arms suppliers.
suppliers to these firms should already be low given existing cross-strait trade-security screening), so the action's weight is primarily signaling/political rather than a major supply disruption.
Chinese-language secondary coverage (one entity name not independently verified).
dual-use inputs (electronics, composites, machine tools) with material supply-chain exposure.