Beijing said the moves responded to recent U.S. restrictions affecting Chinese telecom ‌operators, testing laboratories, drones, consumer routers, submarine cables, advanced robotics equipment and power inverters. It also cited Washington's addition last week of more than 40 Chinese entities ​to its Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act entity list. "This is a retaliatory move, and it's hardly a surprising one," said Alfredo Montufar-Helu, Beijing-based managing director at Ankura China. or reciprocal-country laboratories, while proposing to stop recognising ‌testing laboratories and certification bodies in countries without reciprocal arrangements with Washington. China separately imposed the same business-dealing ban on Applied DNA Sciences, Stratum Reservoir, Altana Technologies, the Responsible Business Alliance, Verité Group and Human Rights in China, accusing them of supporting U.S. Xinjiang-related sanctions.