BIS Delays Compliance Date for Licensing Exports of Certain Radar Electronic Components

The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a correction to its January 9, 2012 final rule that imposes a license requirement on exports and reexports to all destinations other than Canada of two types of microwave and millimeter wave electronic components. The two components are packaged high electron mobility transistors (HEMT) and packaged microwave “monolithic integrated circuits” (MMIC) power amplifiers. The correction adds a compliance date of February 9, 2012 in order to provide exporters and reexporters sufficient time to comply. As a result of this change, only exports and reexports on or after February 9, 2012 are affected by the licensing requirement imposed in new ECCNs 3A982, 3D982, and 3E982. (Note that the final rule still took effect on January 9, 2012.)