US blacklists 37 Chinese, Pakistani firms
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14 companies based in Pakistan have been added to the US trade blacklist for contributing to ballistic missile programs of concern, including Pakistan's missile program, and for involvement in unsafeguarded nuclear activities and two subsidiaries of Chinese genetics company BGI to a trade blacklist over allegations it conducted genetic analysis and surveillance activities which Washington says was used to repress ethnic minorities in China., US official statement said.