in Brussels
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.
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.