Commerce rules adding companies to the Entity List

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Commerce rules adding companies to the Entity List. 1 series: Rules adding parties. Latest, 2026, year to date: Rules adding parties 0.0.

Each rule can add one party or hundreds, so this counts how often Commerce acts, not how many parties it lists. The latest year is year to date.

See also: Laurence Wilse-Samson, "Economic Coercion", chapter 6, Trade Controls: Tariffs, Quotas, and Export Controls; Simulate sanctions, export controls and tariffs: EconWar

Classroom exerciseCount the rules per year before and after 2018. One rule can add a single company or hundreds. Why is the number of rules an imperfect measure of export-control intensity, and what would measure it better? Teach page

Final rules per yearFederal Register API, Bureau of Industry and Security final rules whose titles add parties to the Entity List; Balance of Power calculations.Data through 2026No published-figure check yet

Cite asBalance of Power, "Commerce rules adding companies to the Entity List", data through 2026. Source: Federal Register API, Bureau of Industry and Security final rules whose titles add parties to the Entity List; Balance of Power calculations.

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DateRules adding parties
20199.0
20208.0
202112.0
202211.0
202315.0
202411.0
20256.0
20260.0
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rulesfedregBIS/entity-list-additionslive2026