DDTC Releases Report on 2012 End-Use Monitoring
The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls released its report on end-use monitoring of defense articles and defense service commercial exports in 2012. For that fiscal year, the agency conducted 820 “blue lantern checks,” which monitor licenses and shipments…
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to verify the legitimacy of proposed transactions. The number was only a slight increase from 2011. In 2012, the Near East had the lowest amount of unfavorable checks -- when findings weren’t consistent with the authorization request -- a change from 2011, when that region had the highest amount of unfavorable checks. Europe and South Central Asia had the highest rate of unfavorable checks, about 27 percent, the report said. Europe typically has the lowest; the increase was largely due to a single entity, the report said.