China Revises, Adds to List of Export Controlled Technologies
China revised its list of technologies subject to export controls, including some dual-use items, the country’s Commerce Ministry and Ministry of Science and Technology said Aug. 28, according to unofficial translations. The list has 53 revisions, China’s Commerce Ministry said, including the addition of export restrictions on 23 “new technology items.” The Ministry of Science and Technology provided a Chinese-language notice outlining the changes.
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Asked whether the export controls changes are meant to allow China to maintain oversight over the forced sale of TikTok (see 2008070024), a Foreign Ministry spokesperson declined to discuss specific companies. The revisions are meant “to regulate the management of technology export, advance science, technology and economic and technological cooperation with other countries, and safeguard China's economic security,” he said Aug. 31.
Mofcom also released information about the changes. The previous revision was in 2008 and the changes are needed to bring the list “in accordance with international practices,” an unofficial translation said. Also revised were the technical parameters of 21 items “involving crop breeding technology, aquatic germplasm breeding technology, chemical raw material production technology, biological pesticide production technology, spacecraft measurement and control technology, space data transmission technology, map mapping Technology, information processing technology, vacuum technology and other fields,” it said.
China also deleted technical items that were either prohibited or restricted exports from the list: microbial fertilizer technology, caffeine production technology, riboflavin production technology, vitamin fermentation technology, Newcastle disease vaccine technology, natural medicine production technology, functional polymer material preparation and processing technology, chemical synthesis and semi-synthetic medicine production technology, and information security firewall software technology, Mofcom said.