Wassenaar Posts Export Control Changes From 2021 Plenary
The Wassenaar Arrangement last week published export control changes agreed to by member states during the 2021 plenary. The changes include new controls for “computer-assisted-design software tools for high-end components” and “new classes of metallic and organic substrates used in highly sophisticated applications,” the plenary chair said in a Dec. 23 statement. The changes also include some “relaxed” controls, including loosened restrictions on “fluorinated silicon fluids, metal working parameters for commercial applications, the performance level of High-Performance Computers and multi-mode lasers and radars used in automotive anti-collision applications.”
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Although the COVID-19 pandemic continued to disrupt Wassenaar’s work, member states were able to conduct some in-person meetings during the past year, the plenary chair said. The 2020 plenary was canceled after country representatives couldn’t meet because of pandemic-related travel restrictions (see 2106080055, 2011090045 and 2004290044).