On March 11, 2022, President Biden issued Executive Order 14068, which further prohibits certain imports and new investments with respect to continued Russian Federation efforts to undermine the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and takes additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14024 of April 15, 2021, and Executive Order 14039 of August 20, 2021, and expanded by Executive Order 14066 of March 8, 2022. (9) On April 6, 2022, President Biden issued Executive Order 14071, prohibiting new investment and certain services to the Russian Federation in response to continued Russian Federation aggression, and takes additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14024 of April 15, 2021, expanded by Executive Order 14066 of March 8, 2022, and relied on for additional steps taken in Executive Order 14039 of August 20, 2021, and Executive Order 14068 of March 11, 2022. (10) In March 2022, as the Biden Administration continued to increase pressure on Putin’s regime through rollouts of the aforementioned sanctions, the head of the PRC’s banking and insurance regulator said the PRC will not participate in the sanctions regime Western nations imposed on Russia and “will continue to maintain normal economic, trade and financial exchanges” with Russia despite its aggression against Ukraine. (11) Indeed, that same month, according to PRC customs data, Russia bought 9,950 metric tons of alumina from the PRC, which is nearly 10 times more than what it purchased in the same period a year earlier. The PRC’s first-quarter exports of alumina to Russia are nearly six times the volume of all of 2021, suggesting the PRC may find new ways of providing support to Russia. (12) On June 28, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, added five Chinese companies to the Entity List, in response to their continued support to Russia's military efforts since the imposition of export controls in response to Russia's invasion of