BIS Posts Comments on Proposed Rule to Add Surface Vessels to CCL from USML

The Bureau of Industry and Security has posted the public comments it received on its proposed rule to add to the Commerce Control List (CCL) surface vessels of war and related articles that the President determines no longer warrant control under the U.S. Munitions List (USML). BIS received four comments from private industries in response to this proposed rule. BIS' proposed rule would create five new 600 series ECCNs in the CCL for surface vessels of war and related articles. The State Department had also concurrently issued a proposed rule that would revise USML Category VI for these items to narrow the articles controlled on the USML and to make the list of items more positive.