US BIS Denied Persons List

The Bureau of Industry and Security publishes this list of entities which are relevant with regards to export controls.

The Denied Persons List is a list of people and companies whose export privileges have been denied by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). An American company or individual may not participate in an export transaction with an individual or company on the Denied Persons List.

The Denied Persons List is also included in the US Trade Consolidated List, so we may want to remove this crawler at some point.

Data overview

Entities:
Total1,025
Searchable448
Targets447
Entity types:
Legal entities448
Publisher:Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) · United States

BIS is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where it manages the intersection between business and the foreign policy and security interests of the U.S.

Collections:in Consolidated Sanctions · OpenSanctions Default · United States Sanctions
Information:www.bis.gov
Source data:www.bis.gov · HTML
Tags:list.sanction · list.export · juris.us · issuer.west
Coverage:added · frequency: daily · every 8 hours
Last processed:2025-12-06 16:57:02 · v. 20251206165702-dgh
Last change:

Bulk download

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities850.65 KB
names.txtTarget names text file8.84 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format225.6 KB
source.csvSource data109.77 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON854.62 KB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV166.44 KB

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Using the API

You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.

Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:

Recent additions

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
FEDERICK JOSEPH BERGMANNLegal entity
VARUN MAHARAJHLegal entity
MOHAMED DAOUD GHACHAMLegal entity
JAMES MWANGANGI KIILULegal entity
MIGUEL OCURA-ARENASLegal entity
PEDRO MASCORROLegal entity
KELVIN SINGHLegal entity
ANTONIO JOSE MELEAN REYESLegal entity
KEVIN URIEL GARZALegal entity
SADIR ARVIZU VELAZQUEZLegal entity
FJ TECHNOLOGY SERVICELegal entity
SAMMY ELASHYILegal entity
YE SANG "IVY" WANGLegal entityUnited States
PEDRO CRUZ ALMEIDALegal entityUnited States
SHAOHUA "ERIC" WANGLegal entityUnited States
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