China Remains Top Destination for UK Controlled Exports and Refusals

Published on June 14, 2024

Throughout 2023, China continued to be the most common destination of the UK’s export license refusals, doubling the number in 2022, official figures show. It came after refusals of China-destined export licences more than doubled in 2022 after new security rules came into force that year. However, China remains the top destination for controlled exports from the UK in terms of the value of goods despite the new rules for military end-use (MEU) exports and the inclusion of China, Hong Kong, and Macau to the list of destinations subject to an arms embargo. According to data published on Thursday by the government’s Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU), in 2023, 807 permanent standard individual export licences (SIEL) were granted to exports of strategic goods to China, second only to the United States, which was the end user destination of 1,041 licences....

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