State, Commerce Ask For More Comments on ECR Changes to Military Aircraft, Gas Turbines

The Commerce and State departments asked industry for comments on the implementation of Export Control changes to U.S. Munitions List Categories VIII (Military Aircraft) and XIX, which the agencies say controls military gas turbine engines, in a Federal Register notice early in March. The ECR is an ongoing effort to transfer dual-use items from the USML to the Commerce Control List. The Obama administration transferred items in these two categories to the CCL in the first batch of ECR final rules, which took effect in October 2013 (see 13101618). In its March 2 final rule (here), Commerce asks for comments in order to review the changes “to ensure that they are clear, do not inadvertently control items in normal commercial use, account for technological developments, and properly implement the national security and foreign policy objectives of the reform effort.” State asked for comments on more commodities in these USML categories that deserve transfers to the CCL (here). State and Commerce also made small additional changes to both those categories in 2014 (see 14070104).