The European Union plans to add another 25 Chinese entities to a blacklist of companies for circumventing sanctions on Russia, as part of the next package of measures aimed at hobbling Moscow’s war effort.
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The entities – a mixture of mainland Chinese and Hong Kong-registered companies – will be banned from sourcing goods from the EU, should the package be agreed by the bloc’s member states, according to senior figures familiar with the proposal.
The as-yet unnamed companies stand accused of funnelling European-made goods to Russian military-linked buyers that are banned from accessing them.
As part of the sixteenth package of measures since the war began in February 2022, a single Chinese actor is also expected to be sanctioned, meaning they will face a visa ban and have any assets in the 27-member union frozen.
It is not thought that the new listings are related to an alleged drone factory in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, which some European governments claimed in November was making craft for Russia’s military.
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