In the latest round of the trade war, China has retaliated against the U.S. 84% tariff rate with its own 84% tariff, and has made a few new sanctions announcements as well.

With its latest batch of additions to the Entity List, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has tried to clamp down further on the access of Chinese companies to American semiconductors and other high-tech products.

In a swift and comprehensive retaliation against the 10% additional tariff imposed by the United States today on all Chinese goods, Beijing has unleashed a barrage of countermeasures. These actions span across multiple fronts, including a WTO challenge, retaliatory tariffs, sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) decisions on U.S. agricultural products,

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) placed additional Chinese entities on the Entity List, through two separate actions, on the basis of "activities contrary to U.S. national security and foreign policy interests."

This week, the U.S. government announced new additions to a list of "Chinese Military Companies" and also added several Chinese companies to a Commerce Department "Entity List."

On January 2, Beijing published the first control list of entities for export control purposes, making 28 U.S. companies subject to stringent dual-use item export controls.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Export Enforcement division published its annual Year in Review, with highlights of Export Enforcement’s accomplishments over the past year, including a number of actions related to China.