2 active designations from the surveyed authorities. Each is a public government record with a different legal effect — read the type label and scope on each.
US FCCEquipment-authorization restrictionCovered List under Section 2 of the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 · 2021-03-12
Covered equipment cannot receive new FCC authorization for certain purposes. It is not a sanction or asset freeze and does not ban all of the company’s products (e.g. FCC Covered List).
Verified against the primary source. The FCC's initial Covered List (Public Notice DA 21-309, released March 12, 2021, WC Docket No. 18-89) lists, in its Appendix table: 'Video surveillance and telecommunications equipment produced or provided by Hytera Communications Corporation, to the extent it is used for the purpose of public safety, security of government facilities, physical security surveillance of critical infrastructure, and other national security purposes, including telecommunications or video surveillance services produced or provided by such entity or using such equipment.' This is NOT a flat sanction or asset freeze. The listing flows from the John S. McCain NDAA for FY2019 Section 889 determination (incorporated via the Secure Networks Act) and means such equipment/services are ineligible for FCC universal-service funding; under the FCC's later Report and Order (FCC 22-84, released Nov. 25, 2022, effective Feb. 6, 2023), the FCC will not grant new equipment authorizations for covered Hytera equipment used for the listed prohibited purposes. The scope is purpose-limited, not a blanket ban on all Hytera equipment. In Hikvision USA, Inc. v. FCC, No. 23-1032 (D.C. Cir. Apr. 2, 2024), the court vacated and remanded the FCC's definition of 'critical infrastructure' as arbitrarily broad, but upheld the underlying authorization prohibition and did NOT remove any entity from the Covered List. Hytera Communications Corporation remains on the Covered List as of June 2026; it has not been removed.
FCC Public Notice DA 21-309, 'Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau Announces Publication of the List of Equipment and Services Covered by Section 2 of the Secure Networks Act,' WC Docket No. 18-89 (Released March 12, 2021)
US BISExport controlEntity List addition (89 FR 68544), Supplement No. 4 to Part 744 of the Export Administration Regulations · 2024-08-27
A license is required to export US-origin items/technology to the entity, typically reviewed under a presumption of denial (e.g. BIS Entity List). It is not an asset freeze.
Verified against the primary source. In the final rule 'Revisions to the Entity List' (89 FR 68544, published and effective August 27, 2024), BIS added an entity named 'Hytera Communications Limited' (a.k.a. 'Hytera Communications Ltd.') under the People's Republic of China (Hong Kong), with three Hong Kong addresses (e.g. Room 8, 11/F, Wang Fai Industrial Building, 29 Luk Hop Street, San Po Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong). For this entity a license is required for all items subject to the EAR (see EAR 734.9(g), 746.8(a)(3), and 744.11), reviewed under a policy of denial. The stated basis in the rule's supplementary information is that the added entities procured U.S.-origin/U.S.-branded items in support of Russia's military and defense industrial base, particularly following Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. SCOPE CAVEAT: this Entity List entry names the Hong Kong-addressed 'Hytera Communications Limited,' which is named differently from, and may be a distinct legal entity from, the Shenzhen-based 'Hytera Communications Corporation' on the FCC Covered List. The basis is Russia-related export diversion, NOT any surveillance or radio-technology determination. An Entity List addition is an export-licensing restriction, not an OFAC asset-blocking sanction.
Bureau of Industry and Security, 'Revisions to the Entity List,' 89 FR 68544 (August 27, 2024)
No U.S. OFAC SDN listing, no U.S. Treasury NS-CMIC (Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies) investment restriction, and no EU consolidated-sanctions listing was found for Hytera Communications Corporation (the Shenzhen parent) among the five authoritative sources this database treats as primary, on the dates checked (June 2026). The Shenzhen entity appears on the U.S. FCC Covered List (a supply-chain/procurement-funding restriction, verified above), and is referenced under the 2019 NDAA Section 889 procurement prohibition, but these are not OFAC asset-blocking sanctions. A separately named Hong Kong affiliate, 'Hytera Communications Limited,' appears on the U.S. BIS Entity List (verified above); it has also been reported on EU/Swiss/Ukraine Russia-related measures via secondary aggregation, but those listings (a) are not among the five primary sources, and (b) attach to the Hong Kong entity on a Russia-related basis rather than to the Shenzhen radio manufacturer, so they are noted only as context and not asserted as verified designations. The most publicized Hytera matter in the press is a U.S. Department of Justice trade-secret-theft criminal prosecution (N.D. Ill.) over DMR technology taken from Motorola Solutions; that is a criminal-justice matter, not a sanction/export-control/equipment-authorization/investment designation, and is therefore excluded from the designations array.