DDTC Renews Modification to Aircraft-Related Control Note in USML
The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls is renewing a December change to the U.S. Munitions List that allowed U.S. manufacturers to apply for export licenses to participate in development of the KF-21 aircraft “without removing those defense articles from the USML simply because they are used in the KF-21” (see 2312010010). The revision, which was scheduled to expire Dec. 1, will now last through Dec. 1, 2026, or “when terminated by the Department, whichever occurs first,” DDTC said in a final rule released Nov. 25 and effective Nov. 26.
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The change temporarily modifies a control note within the agency’s aircraft-related export controls under Category VIII of the USML. It allows manufacturers to participate in the development of the KF-21 “by using certain defense articles described in paragraph (h)(1)” of Category VIII without needing to remove those articles from the USML, it said. DDTC said it determined it’s “in the security and foreign policy interests of the United States to extend the validity period of this temporary modification.”