US Sanctions Chinese Entities For Supplying Ballistic Missile Technology, Materials To Pakistan

US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said the United States has imposed sanctions four Chinese entities, one Pakistani company, and one Chinese individual for their supply to Pakistan's ballistic missile programme.

The Unites States has imposed sanctions on four Chinese firms, and a Chinese national for supplying materials to Pakistan for the country’s ballistic missile programme. A US State Department official said a Pakistani company has also been sanctioned under the missile sanctions laws.

In a statement issued Thursday, US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said the United States has imposed sanctions on the Beijing Research Institute of Automation for Machine Building Industry (RIAMB), which has worked with Pakistan’s National Development Complex (NDC), under the missile sanctions laws (i.e. the Arms Export Control Act [AECA] and the Export Control Reform Act [ECRA]).

As per the statement, the Beijing Research Institute had worked with NDC in the development and production of Pakistan’s long-range ballistic missiles to procure equipment for testing of large-diameter rocket motors, including the Shaheen-3 and Ababeel.

“The United States is [also] imposing sanctions on three PRC-based entities, one PRC individual, and a Pakistani entity for ballistic missile proliferation activities: PRC-based firms Hubei Huachangda Intelligent Equipment Company, Universal Enterprise Limited, and Xi’an Longde Technology Development Company Limited (aka Lontek); and PRC individual Luo Dongmei (aka Steed Luo) for knowingly transferring equipment and technology controlled under the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Annex, in support of MTCR Category I missile programmes, to a non-MTCR country,” the statement said.

It said that sanctions have also been imposed on a Innovative Equipment, a Pakistan-based entity, adding that the “United States will continue to act against proliferation and associated procurement activities of concern, wherever they occur”.

Earlier, in October last year, the US had targeted three Chinese companies for supplying missile-applicable items to Pakistan.

At the time, the US  sanctioned General Technology Limited, Beijing Luo Luo Technology Development Co Ltd, and Changzhou Utek Composite Company Ltd. for supplying brazing materials used to join components in ballistic missile rocket engines, in the production of combustion chambers, and supplying mandrels and other machinery used in the production of solid-propellant rocket motors.

(With PTI inputs)