(Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Trade Fee added over 80 corporations to its checklist of entities going through attainable expulsion from American exchanges, which embody China’s JD (NASDAQ:).com, Pinduoduo (NASDAQ:) Inc, Bilibili (NASDAQ:) Inc, and NetEase (NASDAQ:) Inc.

The SEC on Wednesday expanded the checklist, consisting of U.S.-listed Chinese language entities, on a provisional lineup beneath a 2020 regulation referred to as The Holding International Corporations Accountable Act.

The act, signed right into a regulation by then-President Donald Trump, goals to take away foreign-jurisdiction corporations from U.S. bourses in the event that they fail to adjust to American auditing requirements for 3 years in a row.

Different massive Chinese language corporations that had been added to the SEC’s checklist had been JinkoSolar (NYSE:) Holding Co Ltd, NIO Inc, and China Petroleum (NYSE:) & Chemical Corp, amongst others.

Sources had informed Reuters final month Chinese language regulators had requested a number of the nation’s U.S.-listed corporations, together with Alibaba (NYSE:), Baidu (NASDAQ:), and JD.com, to arrange extra audit disclosures.

China had additionally proposed in early-April to revise confidentiality guidelines on offshore listings, a transfer sought to take away a authorized hurdle to Sino-U.S. co-operation on audit oversight and put the onus on Chinese language corporations to guard state secretes.

The event was after a U.S. watchdog had mentioned in March it continued to interact with Chinese language regulators about having access to their auditors’ information, however it was unclear if the Chinese language authorities would grant the entry required by a brand new U.S. itemizing regulation.