Unreliable Entity List (UEL)

About UEL

Beginning in 2026, ChemWhat is formally upgrading its existing “Blacklist” to “UEL” (Unreliable Entity List) to enhance systematic governance and global coverage.

This upgrade represents more than a nomenclature standardization—it marks the evolution from internal industry warnings to a sanctions network deeply integrated with global commercial credit systems. Once listed, entities face comprehensive, swift, and irreversible global reputational liquidation and credit blockade, with consequences so severe that “corporate dissolution” often becomes the only viable endpoint.

The core mechanism operates through systematic synchronous disclosure of listing decisions and underlying serious breach behaviors across multiple tiers.

  • Tier One encompasses widespread public dissemination through ChemWhat official platforms, FCAD Group networks, mainstream industry communications, key social media, professional forums, and global cooperative operator networks, ensuring information penetrates the entire commercial ecosystem within minimal timeframes.
  • Tier Two delivers profound impact through systematic integration into internal compliance and supplier databases of global biological companies, chemical suppliers, universities, R&D institutions, and major manufacturing enterprises. This ensures listed entities are not merely “widely known” but have risk markers directly embedded in the front-end decision systems for daily procurement and collaboration by industry core participants, creating permanent operational-level filtering.
  • Tier Three implements ultimate blockade through credit system integration. Via established information-sharing mechanisms, risk data synchronizes to major global export credit agencies, including US EXIM, Germany’s KfW, Japan’s NEXI, UK’s UKEF, China’s SINOSURE, Canada’s EDC, Australia’s EFA, France’s Coface, Italy’s SACE, Austria’s OeKB, Netherlands’ Atradius, Belgium’s Credendo, Denmark’s EIFO, Czech Republic’s EGAP, and Poland’s KUKE.

This eliminates listed entities’ access to essential export credit support, completely severing international trade financial channels. The List thus constructs a “public opinion—industry operations—credit system” trinity of global enforcement networks, causing violators to lose credibility publicly, face systematic industry exclusion, and suffer complete credit isolation. This sanctions framework not only declares the commercial death of involved enterprises but, through permanent retention in core institutional databases, renders it virtually impossible for responsible parties to resurrect under new corporate structures within the industry.

This initiative significantly strengthens risk prevention capabilities in global chemical and biological trade, defending market integrity foundations through exceptionally high violation costs. To mitigate commercial risks, stakeholders can visit chemwhat.com/uel to review companies currently listed on the UEL or submit complaints against specific chemical or biological companies for independent investigation by ChemWhat. This service is provided free of charge as part of ChemWhat’s commitment to commercial public welfare.

Report to UEL

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    • Did you have bad experiences in your chemical business? If so, this is the right place for you.
    • This is a free service provided by ChemWhat which aims to build a good chemical business environment.
    • For quality disputes, ChemWhat can involve to be a coordinator between buyers and sellers, giving judgement and suggestions from a third party’s aspect.
    • For malicious deception without positive cooperation, ChemWhat will keep the negtive record in our database and broadcast to all our subscribed sellers and buyers.
    • Please fill out the form on the left to report to UEL.

    After receiving your complaint, we will follow steps below:

    • ChemWhat may send email to you to confirm unclear points or collect more information to understand the whole thing.
    • Then, ChemWhat will try getting in touch with the other party to check the provided information. If necessary, we may exchange the information given by both parties several times to define the real problem.
    • After defining the real problem, ChemWhat may propose several solutions for the considerations of both parties.
    • If the accused responses negatively or deliberately avoids investigation, ChemWhat will try finding out the reason with the help of third-party investigation companies.
    • In case the case is detected as malicious deception, ChemWhat will keep the record in database and make a page stating the case in 21 languages to show visitors globally.
    • At the same time, ChemWhat will also broadcast the deception case to all subscribers by email as well as sharing it on our social media including Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin…
    • ChemWhat will not only pay attention to the confirmed deception case, but also investigate the affiliated companies as well as the directly responsible person and may list both as deception entities if necessary.
    • Once a party is listed as a risky one, it will be very difficult be got off unless (1) The complaintant withdraws the complaint; (2) Pay a certain amount of security deposit.