Companies and people Commerce added to the Entity List

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(Parties added per year)

Companies and people Commerce added to the Entity List. 1 series: Parties added. Latest, 2026, year to date: Parties added 0.

The number each rule's abstract states: entities where it counts them, otherwise entries (an entity listed under two countries is two entries). Starts in 2021, the first year every such rule states a number. A count of listings, not of the trade they block. The latest year is year to date.

See also: Laurence Wilse-Samson, "Economic Coercion", chapter 6, Trade Controls: Tariffs, Quotas, and Export Controls

Classroom exerciseDivide the parties added each year by the rules that added them. In which year was the average rule largest, and what happened to U.S. export controls on China that year? Teach page

Federal Register API, the abstracts of Bureau of Industry and Security final rules that add parties to the Entity List (corrections excluded); Balance of Power calculations.Data through 2026Checked on 30 Oct 2026✓ Checked against Hand count from the abstracts of the eleven BIS rules adding parties in 2024: 27 Feb (93 and 2 entities), 11 Apr (11 entries), 14 May (37), 24 Jun (3 entries), 3 Jul (6 entries), 27 Aug (123), 23 Oct (26 entries), 1 Nov (40), 5 Dec (140), 11 Dec (8); the CFR correction of 16 Sep adds none; read 29 Oct 2026✓ Checked against Hand count from the abstracts of the seven BIS rules adding parties in 2025: 6 Jan (13), 16 Jan (16 and 11), 28 Mar (70 and 12), 16 Sep (32), 9 Oct (26 entities and 3 addresses); read 29 Oct 2026

Cite asBalance of Power, "Companies and people Commerce added to the Entity List", data through 2026. Source: Federal Register API, the abstracts of Bureau of Industry and Security final rules that add parties to the Entity List (corrections excluded); Balance of Power calculations.

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DateParties added
202171
2022439
2023217
2024489
2025180
20260
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With: Commerce rules adding companies to the Entity List

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partiesfedregBIS/entity-list-partieslive2026