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DDTC Begins Accepting Expired Export Applications

The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has started accepting expired DSP-83 forms for processing, after working with the Office of Management and Budget to update its policy for that military equipment authorization application, DDTC said (here). The agency…

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will process applications as long as they contain all the information required by the current, unexpired form, but State is urging firms to implement the new form by Oct. 1, “in order to avoid any confusion during future revisions,” DDTC said. Officials developed the policy because the expired DSP-83 is largely similar to the current form, according to the agency.