Entity List

"Supplement No. 4 to Part 744 of the Export Administration Regulations  This document is formatted and provided by BIS as a convenience to the public. However, it does not constitute the official version of the Entity List and may not include recent changes and amendments. To ensure that you are relying on the official version of the Regulations, please visit the Code of Federal Regulations.

General Description

The Export Administration Regulations (EAR) contain a list of names of certain foreign persons – including businesses, research institutions, government and private organizations, individuals, and other types of legal persons – that are subject to specific license requirements for the export, reexport and/or transfer (in-country) of specified items. These persons comprise the Entity List, which is found in Supplement No. 4 to Part 744 of the EAR. On an individual basis, the persons on the Entity List are subject to licensing requirements and policies supplemental to those found elsewhere in the EAR.

License Requirements Imposed by the Entity List

The Entity List specifies the license requirements that it imposes on each listed person. Those license requirements are independent of, and in addition to, license requirements imposed elsewhere in the EAR. For example, if you want to export, reexport or transfer (in-country) an EAR99 item to a listed entity and the license requirements for that person as specified in the “License Requirement” column of the Entity List state “all items subject to the EAR,” you would have to obtain a license before exporting, reexporting or transferring (in-country) the item, even if the EAR99 item could otherwise be sent to the country of destination without a license provided the proposed end-use does not trigger another license requirement under Part 744 of the EAR.

Note also that provisions of the EAR other than the Commerce Control List (Supplement No. 1 to Part 774 of the EAR) (CCL) and the Entity List impose license requirements on exports, reexports and transfers (in-country) of items subject to the EAR. See, for example, the end-use requirements in Part 744 or the embargo and special destination requirements in Part 746, and note that if any of these parts impose a license requirement, you would have to obtain a license prior to the export, reexport or transfer (in-country) of the item..."

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