DDTC Releases Public Comments on Proposed ITAR Changes
The State Department Directorate of Defense Trade Controls on March 28 released public comments (here) it received on its Feb. 9 proposed amendments to U.S. Munitions List Categories (USML) VIII for aircraft and XIX for gas turbine engines as part…
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of the Obama Administration’s ongoing Export Control Reform initiative (see 1602080017). Commenters mostly included aviation companies and defense contractors, several of whom recommended that State better clarify USML language about gearboxes, delete language identifying technical hardware that is already covered by the Commerce Control List (CCL), and to better specify and amend duplicate language on drones, according to the posted comments.