[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 242 (Tuesday, December 19, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 87836-87837]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-27544]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 12257]


Designation of Three Entities Contributing to Ballistic Missile 
Proliferation

ACTION: Notice of designation.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the authority in the Executive Order, ``Blocking 
Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and Their 
Supporters,'' and delegated authority, the Under Secretary of State for 
Arms Control and International Security, in consultation with the 
Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General, has determined that 
General Technology Limited, Beijing Luo Luo Technology Development Co 
Ltd, and Changzhou Utek Composite Company Ltd, engaged, or attempted to 
engage, in activities or transactions that have materially contributed 
to, or pose a risk of materially contributing to, the proliferation of 
weapons of mass destruction or their means of delivery (including 
missiles capable of delivering such weapons), including any efforts to 
manufacture, acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer or use such 
items, by Pakistan.

DATES: The Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security 
made these designations pursuant to E.O. 13382 and delegated 
authorities, on October 18, 2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Zarzecki, Director, Office of 
Counterproliferation Initiatives, Bureau of International Security and 
Nonproliferation, Department of State, Washington, DC 20520, tel.: 202-
647-5193.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 28, 2005, the President, invoking 
the authority, inter alia, of the International Emergency Economic 
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) (``IEEPA''), issued Executive Order 
13382 (70 CFR 38567, July 1, 2005) (the ``Order''), effective at 12:01 
a.m. eastern daylight time on June 30, 2005. In the Order the President 
took additional steps with respect to the national emergency described 
and declared in Executive Order 12938 of November 14, 1994, regarding 
the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the means of 
delivering them.
    Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all 
property and interests in property that are in the United States, or 
that hereafter come within the United States or that are or hereafter 
come within the possession or control of United States persons, of: (1)

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The persons listed in the Annex to the Order; (2) any foreign person 
determined by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 
Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, and other relevant 
agencies, to have engaged, or attempted to engage, in activities or 
transactions that have materially contributed to, or pose a risk of 
materially contributing to, the proliferation of weapons of mass 
destruction or their means of delivery, including any efforts to 
manufacture, acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer or use such 
items, by any person or foreign country of proliferation concern; (3) 
any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and other relevant 
agencies, to have provided, or attempted to provide, financial, 
material, technological or other support for, or goods or services in 
support of, any activity or transaction described in clause (2) above 
or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked 
pursuant to the Order; and (4) any person determined by the Secretary 
of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the 
Attorney General, and other relevant agencies, to be owned or 
controlled by, or acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of, 
directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in 
property are blocked pursuant to the Order.
    As a result of this action, pursuant to the authority in section 
1(a)(ii) of Executive Order 13382, ``Blocking Property of Weapons of 
Mass Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters,'' all property and 
interests in property of General Technology Limited, Beijing Luo Luo 
Technology Development Co Ltd, and Changzhou Utek Composite Company Ltd 
that are in the United States, or that hereafter come within the United 
States or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control 
of United States persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, 
exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in.
    Identifying information on the designees is as follows:

GENERAL TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, Level 13, 68 Yee Wo Street, Causeway Bay, 
Hong Kong, China; Organization Established Date 06 Apr 2018; Target 
Type Private Company; Registration Number 2676701 (Hong Kong) [NPWMD].
BEIJING LUO LUO TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO LTD, Room 903, Building 1, 
No. 4 Wangjing Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China; Organization 
Type: Non-specialized wholesale trade [NPWMD].
CHANGZHOU UTEK COMPOSITE COMPANY LTD (a.k.a. ``CUC''), Fuhanyuan 1-812, 
New North District, Changzhou, Jiangsu 213022, China; website 
utekcomposite.com; Organization Established Date 04 Jun 2012 [NPWMD].

    The three entities above have been added to the list of Specially 
Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons.

Gonzalo O. Suarez,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Security and 
Nonproliferation, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2023-27544 Filed 12-18-23; 8:45 am]
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