Bureau of Industry Updates Commerce Control List Provisions for New Technologies
The Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security added five new national security-related technologies to the export administration regulations’ commerce control list, said a Thursday notice in the Federal Register. The additions stem from changes made to the Wassenaar Arrangement’s…
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list of dual-use goods and technologies agreed to during a 2018 plenary meeting, BIS said. The changes add “recently developed or developing technologies” that are “essential” to U.S. national security: “discrete microwave transistors,” “continuity of operation software,” “post-quantum cryptography,” “underwater transducers designed to operate as hydrophones” and “air-launch platforms.” The changes took effect Thursday. Shipments “on dock for loading, on lighter, laden aboard an exporting carrier, or en route aboard a carrier” to a foreign destination on or before Thursday may proceed to the destination.