“To modify certain definitions under the Export Control Reform Act of 2018.”
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This section establishes the short title of the Act as the “Addressing Dangerous Vulnerabilities in Exports and Research to Strategic Adversaries, Regimes, and Industrial Entities of Security Concern Act” or the “ADVERSARIES Act”.
This section revises the definition of "person" in section 1742 of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (50 U.S.C. 4801), paragraph (5), to include (i) each entity identified as a Chinese military company pursuant to section 1260H(a) of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (10 U.S.C. 113 note); (ii) each entity identified pursuant to Supplement No. 4 to part 744 of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations, or successor regulations (Entity List), by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS); (iii) each entity identified pursuant to Supplement No. 7 to part 744 of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations, or successor regulations (Military End User List), by BIS; and (iv) each subsidiary or affiliate of such an entity owned 50 percent or more in the aggregate, directly or indirectly, wherever located. The section also strikes "foreign" from paragraph (6). (As background, the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 authorizes Commerce's BIS to administer export controls on dual-use items and emerging technologies; thus, this expands the persons presumptively subject to those licensing requirements.)