http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ITAR.html http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codei/nasaecp/Webbrfg/tsld001.htm http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/library/itar.htm http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codei/nasaecp/ http://www.pmdtc.org/ FEDERAL REGISTER VOL. 58, No. 139 Rules and Regulations DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs 22 CFR Parts 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, and 130 [Public Notice 1832] Amendments to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations Part II 58 FR 39280 DATE: Thursday, July 22, 1993 ACTION: Final rule. --------------------------------------------------- Enumeration of Articles @ 121.1 -- General. The United States munitions list. (a) The following articles, services and related technical data are designated as defense articles and defense services pursuant to sections 38 and 47(7) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778 and 2794(7)). Changes in designations will be published in the Federal Register. Information and clarifications on whether specific items are defense articles and services under this subchapter may appear periodically in the Defense Trade News published by the Center for Defense Trade. (b) Significant military equipment: An asterisk precedes certain defense articles in the following list. The asterisk means that the article is deemed to be "significant military equipment" to the extent specified in @ 120.19. The asterisk is placed as a convenience to help identify such articles. (c) Certain items in the following list are placed in brackets. The brackets mean that the item is (1) scheduled to be moved to the licensing jurisdiction PAGE 24 58 FR 39280, *39287 FOCUS of the Department of Commerce upon establishment of a foreign policy control or (2) in the case of spacecraft and related equipment, the item is under review by an interagency space technical working group. The interagency review will result in a recommendation as to whether an item should be moved to the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce or to USML category XV which was established for this purpose. ---------------------------------------------- Category XII-Fire Control, Range Finder, Optical and Guidance and Control Equipment *(a) Fire control systems; gun and missile tracking and guidance systems; gun range, position, height finders, spotting instruments and laying equipment; aiming devices (electronic, optic, and acoustic); bomb sights, bombing computers, military television sighting and viewing units, and periscopes for the articles of this section. *(b) Lasers specifically designed, modified or configured for military application including those used in military communication devices, target designators and range finders, target detection systems, and directed energy PAGE 32 58 FR 39280, *39289 FOCUS weapons. *(c) Infrared focal plane array detectors specifically designed, modified or configured for military use; image intensification and other night sighting equipment or systems specifically designed, modified, or configured for military use; second generation and above military image intensification tubes (defined below) specifically designed, developed, modified, or configured for military use, and, infrared, visible, and ultraviolet devices specifically designed, developed, modified, or configured for military application. Note: Special Definition. For purposes of this subparagraph, second and third generation image intensifier tubes are defined as having: A peak response within the 0.4 to 1.05 micron wavelength range and incorporating a microchannel plate for electron image amplification having a hole pitch (center-to-center spacing) of less than 25 microns, and having either: (a) An S-20, S-25 or multialkali photocathode; or (b) A semiconductor photocathode; *(d) Inertial platforms and sensors for weapons or weapon systems; guidance, control and stabilization systems except for those systems covered in category VIII; astro-compasses and star trackers and military and [non-military] accelerometers and gyros. For [*39290] aircraft inertial reference systems and related components refer to Category VIII. [(e) Non-military second generation and above image intensification tubes, non-military infrared focal plane arrays, and image intensification tubes identified in paragraph (c) of this section when a part of a commercial system (i.e. those systems originally designed for commercial use). This does not include military systems comprised of non-military specification components.] (f) Components, parts, accessories, attachments and associated equipment specifically designed or modified for the articles in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this category, except for such items as are in normal commercial use. (g) Technical data (as defined in @ 120.21 of this subchapter) and defense services (as defined in @ 120.8) directly related to the defense articles enumerated in paragraphs (a) through (f) of this category. (See @ 125.4 of this subchapter for exemptions.) Technical data directly related to manufacture and production of any defense articles enumerated elsewhere in this category that are designated as Significant Military Equipment (SME) shall itself be designated as SME. ------------------------------------ @ 126.1 -- Prohibited exports and sales to certain countries. PAGE 98 58 FR 39280, *39312 FOCUS (a) It is the policy of the United States to deny licenses, other approvals, exports and imports of defense articles and defense services, destined for or originating in certain countries. This policy applies to: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Byelarus, Cambodia, Cuba, Estonia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, North Korea, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. This policy also applies to countries with respect to which the United States maintains an arms embargo (e.g., Burma, China, Liberia, Somalia, the Sudan, the former Yugoslavia, and Zaire) or for whenever an export would not otherwise be in furtherance of world peace and the security and foreign policy of the United States. Comprehensive arms embargoes are normally the subject of a State Department notice published in the Federal Register. The exemptions provided in the regulations in this subchapter, except @@ 123.17 and 125.4(b)(13) of this subchapter, do not apply with respect to articles originating in or for export to any proscribed countries or areas.