China North Industries Group Corporation Limited (Norinco Group) (and Norinco Group subsidiaries: China North Chemical Research Academy Group Co., Ltd., Chinese Academy of Ordnance Science, Harbin First Machinery Group Ltd., Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group Co., Ltd. . Kiekert USA Inc., Merit Automotive Electronics Systems S.L.U, North Petroleum International Company Limited, and Yunnan Yuanjin Optical Instrument Co., Ltd.)

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 1 authority: US Department of Defense (Section 1260H). Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.
• Debarment & exclusion— Checked, nothing found16 sources read, none holding a record for this company.
• Ownership & control— Not scoredNot scored. No ownership, control or officer records are on file for this company, which is an absence of evidence rather than an absence of risk.
• People— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• Identity & registration— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• Jurisdiction— Not scoredNot scored. The jurisdiction lists this system reads are: EU list of high-risk third countries (AMLD Art. 9). Each names specific countries, so absence from them is not a clearance of China. Separately, 22 of the sanctions authorities this system reads have designated companies registered in China — a count of this corpus, not a rating of the jurisdiction.
• Court records— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.

• US Department of Defense (Section 1260H)Active

  Section 1260H designation

  Designated 10 Jun 2026 · US DoD Section 1260H (latest designation notice)

No corporate ownership records on file for this company. Ownership is recorded only where a register or a designating authority publishes it, and coverage is thin for companies outside the jurisdictions with open beneficial-ownership registers.

No people recorded against this company. Officer and ownership data comes from national business registers, and the registers this system reads cover a different set of countries from the sanctions lists — so a sanctioned company frequently has none.

Legal name

China North Industries Group Corporation Limited (Norinco Group) (and Norinco Group subsidiaries: China North Chemical Research Academy Group Co., Ltd., Chinese Academy of Ordnance Science, Harbin First Machinery Group Ltd., Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group Co., Ltd. . Kiekert USA Inc., Merit Automotive Electronics Systems S.L.U, North Petroleum International Company Limited, and Yunnan Yuanjin Optical Instrument Co., Ltd.)

Also known as

China North Industries Group Corporation Limited (Norinco Group) (and Norinco Group subsidiaries: China North Chemical Research Academy Group Co., Ltd., Chinese Academy of Ordnance Science, Harbin First Machinery Group Ltd., Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group Co., Ltd. . Kiekert USA Inc., Merit Automotive Electronics Systems S.L.U, North Petroleum International Company Limited, and Yunnan Yuanjin Optical Instrument Co., Ltd.)

Jurisdiction

CN

Legal form

Ltd. — form not confirmed for this country

First recorded here

15 Aug 2026

1. Sanction listed: US Department of Defense (Section 1260H) — Section 1260H designation

   15 Aug 2026 · US DoD Section 1260H (latest designation notice)

2. Alias recorded: China North Industries Group Corporation Limited (Norinco Group) (and Norinco Group subsidiaries: China North Chemical Research Academy Group Co., Ltd., Chinese Academy of Ordnance Science, Harbin First Machinery Group Ltd., Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group Co., Ltd. . Kiekert USA Inc., Merit Automotive Electronics Systems S.L.U, North Petroleum International Company Limited, and Yunnan Yuanjin Optical Instrument Co., Ltd.)

   15 Aug 2026 · US DoD Section 1260H (latest designation notice)

3. First recorded: China North Industries Group Corporation Limited (Norinco Group) (and Norinco Group subsidiaries: China North Chemical Research Academy Group Co., Ltd., Chinese Academy of Ordnance Science, Harbin First Machinery Group Ltd., Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group Co., Ltd. . Kiekert USA Inc., Merit Automotive Electronics Systems S.L.U, North Petroleum International Company Limited, and Yunnan Yuanjin Optical Instrument Co., Ltd.)

   15 Aug 2026 · US DoD Section 1260H (latest designation notice)

No ownership test is on file for this company. The test reads who holds a company's shares from its shareholder register, and it is run each day for companies with a number in Estonia's, Latvia's or Poland's register. For a company anywhere else, no register read here states its shareholders, so the test cannot be run.

No corporate ownership records on file. This is an absence of evidence, not evidence of a simple structure — see the risk breakdown, where the ownership component is left unscored for exactly this reason.

No people recorded against this company. Officer data comes from national business registers, and a company outside those jurisdictions will have none here even when its officers are publicly known elsewhere.

Nothing to draw: this company has no recorded links to another company on file.

No address has been read for this company, so this was never checked — which is not the same as finding nothing.

• Fact

  china north industries group corporation (norinco group) (and norinco group subsidiaries: china north chemical research academy group co chinese academy of ordnance science harbin first machinery group inner mongolia first machinery group co kiekert usa merit automotive electronics systems slu north petroleum international and yunnan yuanjin optical instrument co )

  Legal name

  Evidence

  dod1260h-2026-11571-china-north-industries-group-corporation-limited-norinco-group-and-nor

  Read 25 Aug 2026

  Source

  US DoD Section 1260H (latest designation notice)

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  china north industries group corporation (norinco group) (and norinco group subsidiaries: china north chemical research academy group co chinese academy of ordnance science harbin first machinery group inner mongolia first machinery group co kiekert usa merit automotive electronics systems s l u north petroleum international and yunnan yuanjin optical instrument co )

  Legal name

  Evidence

  dod1260h-2026-11571-china-north-industries-group-corporation-limited-norinco-group-and-nor

  Read 15 Aug 2026

  Source

  US DoD Section 1260H (latest designation notice)

  Primary source ↗

  Superseded 25 Aug 2026 — the source has since published a different value. Kept rather than overwritten, so the change itself stays readable.

• Fact

  CN

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  dod1260h-2026-11571-china-north-industries-group-corporation-limited-norinco-group-and-nor

  Read 15 Aug 2026

  Source

  US DoD Section 1260H (latest designation notice)

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  US Department of Defense (Section 1260H) — Section 1260H designation

  Designation

  Evidence

  dod1260h-2026-11571-china-north-industries-group-corporation-limited-norinco-group-and-nor

  Read 15 Aug 2026 · in force from 10 Jun 2026

  Source

  US DoD Section 1260H (latest designation notice)

  Primary source ↗

Records from these sources are matched into one company only on a shared identifier, or by a human reviewer — never on name similarity alone. How this works. Not legal or compliance advice: check the originals before acting on anything here.

TRUE

A source states it. Rendered as a fact, with the source attached.

FALSE

A source explicitly denies it. Rare, and never inferred from silence.

UNKNOWN

Checked, nothing found. Rendered as an em dash, never as 0 or "no".

NOT_ASSESSED

Never checked — nothing was read here. Excluded from coverage, and not counted as clean.

2 records on this company — identifiers, aliases, officers, listings, figures — each carry the source that wrote them and are shown beside their own entries. The fields above are different: the entities table has no source column, so what is shown is every source whose stored payload contains the value verbatim. That is strong evidence, not proof of which write landed it, and where nothing contains the value the row says so instead of naming a plausible source.