The U.S. Department of Commerce will add 33 Chinese entities to a trade blacklist over claims of being involved in activities that are against U.S. national security or foreign policy, and for alleged human rights violations.

Twenty-four entities, including SoftBank Group Corp.-backed robotics and artificial intelligence company CloudMinds and cybersecurity provider Qihoo360, will be banned from exporting U.S. goods for allegedly supporting the acquisition of items for Chinese military use, the department's Bureau of Industry and Security said.

The department will also blacklist China's Ministry of Public Security’s Institute of Forensic Science and Aksu Huafu Textiles Co., along with seven commercial entities, including artificial intelligence company NetPosa Technologies Ltd. and its unit SenseNets Technology Ltd., for supposedly aiding China's human rights violations and "high-technology surveillance" against minorities in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.

The commerce department earlier added Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Ltd. and 27 other Chinese entities to its "entity list" over alleged human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims. It also barred CloudMinds from sharing technology or technical data of U.S. origin with its Chinese operations.

The U.S. government will also amend its rules on foreign-produced direct product to stop Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from using U.S. technology and software to design and produce chips outside the country.