[MRCA] The US Munitions List
Rob Flory
robandpj at earthlink.net
Wed Apr 21 12:02:06 EDT 2010
Hi,
Hmmm, there's a few items I guess I should be glad I got already.
It would take a pretty sophisticated background for someone to evaluate items. Do you suppose they just count on people to complain?
RF
-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruce <bsugarberg at core.com>
>Sent: Apr 21, 2010 11:31 AM
>To: MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: [MRCA] The US Munitions List
>
>Hello All,
>
>Here is the US Munitions List,
>and its most relevant parts:
>
>73, Bruce WA8TNC
>================
>
>J. Forster wrote:
>>
>> From another list, FYI.
>>
>> -John
>>
>> ===============
>>
>> ------ Original Message ----------------------------
>> Subject: Latest from Ebay - Does anybody know what this is about?
>> Date: Wed, April 21, 2010 2:02 am
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Ebay would like to inform you we have changed our policy for military
>> items. You may be affected by this since you recently listed in a
>> military item related category.
>>
>> Due to the change, the sale of items regulated by the US International
>> Trade in Arms Regulations is now prohibited.
>>
>> Please read our military items policy before you list such an item again.
>>
>> You can also find more information on which items fall under the US
>> International Trade in Arms in the US Munitions List.
>>
>> Please ensure your listings for military items follow these guidelines.
>> If they don't, they will be removed. You may then be subject to other
>> actions, such as a limitation on your buying and selling privileges,
>> suspension of your account, and/or referral of the matter to the police.
>>
>> Thank you for your attention to this issue.
>>
>> Yours sincerely,
>>
>> eBay
>
>======================
>
>The US Munitions List
>
>http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/offdocs/itar/p121.htm
>
>
> Category XI-Military [and Space] Electronics
>
> (a) Electronic equipment not included in Category XII of the U.S.
>Munitions List which is specifically designed, modified or configured for
>military application. This equipment includes but is not limited to:
>
> *(1) Underwater sound equipment to include active and passive
>detection, identification, tracking, and weapons control equipment.
>
> *(2) Underwater acoustic active and passive countermeasures and
>counter-countermeasures.
>
> (3) Radar systems, with capabilities such as:
>
> *(i) Search,
>
> *(ii) Acquisition,
>
> *(iii) Tracking,
>
> *(iv) Moving target indication,
>
> *(v) Imaging radar systems,
>
> (vi) Any ground air traffic control radar which is specifically
>designed or modified for military application.
>
> *(4) Electronic combat equipment, such as:
>
> (i) Active and passive countermeasures,
>
> (ii) Active and passive counter-countermeasures, and
>
> (iii) Radios (including transceivers) specifically designed or modified
>to interfere with other communication devices or transmissions.
>
> *(5) Command, control and communications systems to include radios
>(transceivers), navigation, and identification equipment.
>
> (6) Computers specifically designed or developed for military
>application and any computer specifically modified for use with any defense
>article in any category of the U.S. Munitions List.
>
> (7) Any experimental or developmental electronic equipment specifically
>designed or modified for military application or specifically designed or
>modified for use with a military system.
>
> *(b) Electronic systems or equipment specifically designed, modified,
>or configured for intelligence, security, or military purposes for use in
>search, reconnaissance, collection, monitoring, direction-finding, display,
>analysis and production of information from the electromagnetic spectrum
>and electronic systems or equipment designed or modified to counteract
>electronic surveillance or monitoring. A system meeting this definition is
>controlled under this subchapter even in instances where any individual
>pieces of equipment constituting the system may be subject to the controls
>of another U.S. Government agency. Such systems or equipment described
>above include, but are not limited to, those:
>
> (1) Designed or modified to use cryptographic techniques to generate
>the spreading code for spread spectrum or hopping code for frequency
>agility. This does not include fixed code techniques for spread spectrum.
>
> (2) Designed or modified using burst techniques (e.g., time compression
>techniques) for intelligence, security or military purposes.
>
> (3) Designed or modified for the purpose of information security to
>suppress the compromising emanations of information-bearing signals. This
>covers TEMPEST suppression technology and equipment meeting or designed to
>meet government TEMPEST standards. This definition is not intended to
>include equipment designed to meet Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
>commercial electro-magnetic interference standards or equipment designed
>for health and safety.
>
> [(c) Space electronics:
>
> *(1) Electronic equipment specifically designed or modified for
>spacecraft and spaceflight, and
>
> (2) Electronic equipment specifically designed or modified for use with
>non-military communications satellites.
>
> (3) Components, parts, accessories, attachments, and associated
>equipment specifically designed or modified for use with the equipment in
>subparagraphs (1) and (2).]
>
> (d) Components, parts, accessories, attachments, and associated
>equipment specifically designed or modified for use with the equipment in
>paragraphs (a) and (b) of this category, except for such items as are in
>normal commercial use.
>
> (e) Technical data (as defined in § 120.21 of this subchapter) and
>defense services (as defined in § 120.8 of this subchapter) directly
>related to the defense articles enumerated in paragraphs (a) through (d) of
>this category. (See § 125.4 of this subchapter for exemptions.) Technical
>data directly related to the manufacture or production of any defense
>articles enumerated elsewhere in this category that are designated as
>Significant Military Equipment (SME) shall itself be designated as SME.
>Category XII-Fire Control, Range Finder, Optical and Guidance and Control
>Equipment
>
> *(a) Fire control systems; gun and missile tracking and guidance
>systems; gun range, position, height finders, spotting instruments and
>laying equipment; aiming devices (electronic, optic, and acoustic); bomb
>sights, bombing computers, military television sighting and viewing units,
>and periscopes for the articles of this section.
>
> *(b) Lasers specifically designed, modified or configured for military
>application including those used in military communication devices, target
>designators and range finders, target detection systems, and directed
>energy weapons.
>
> *(c) Infrared focal plane array detectors specifically designed,
>modified or configured for military use; image intensification and other
>night sighting equipment or systems specifically designed, modified, or
>configured for military use; second generation and above military image
>intensification tubes (defined below) specifically designed, developed,
>modified, or configured for military use, and, infrared, visible, and
>ultraviolet devices specifically designed, developed, modified, or
>configured for military application.
>
> Note: Special Definition. For purposes of this subparagraph, second
>and third generation image intensifier tubes are defined as having:
>
> A peak response within the 0.4 to 1.05 micron wavelength range and
>incorporating a microchannel plate for electron image amplification having
>a hole pitch (center-to-center spacing) of less than 25 microns, and having
>either:
>
> (a) An S-20, S-25 or multialkali photocathode; or
>
> (b) A semiconductor photocathode;
>
> *(d) Inertial platforms and sensors for weapons or weapon systems;
>guidance, control and stabilization systems except for those systems
>covered in category VIII; astro-compasses and star trackers and military
>and [non-military] accelerometers and gyros. For aircraft inertial
>reference systems and related components refer to Category VIII.
>
> [(e) Non-military second generation and above image intensification
>tubes, non-military infrared focal plane arrays, and image intensification
>tubes identified in paragraph (c) of this section when a part of a
>commercial system (i.e. those systems originally designed for commercial
>use). This does not include military systems comprised of non-military
>specification components.]
>
> (f) Components, parts, accessories, attachments and associated
>equipment specifically designed or modified for the articles in paragraphs
>(a), (b), (c) and (d) of this category, except for such items as are in
>normal commercial use.
>
> (g) Technical data (as defined in § 120.21 of this subchapter) and
>defense services (as defined in § 120.8) directly related to the defense
>articles enumerated in paragraphs (a) through (f) of this category. (See §
>125.4 of this subchapter for exemptions.) Technical data directly related
>to manufacture and production of any defense articles enumerated elsewhere
>in this category that are designated as Significant Military Equipment
>(SME) shall itself be designated as SME.
>Category XIII-Auxiliary Military Equipment
>
> (a) Cameras [including space cameras] and specialized processing
>equipment therefor, photointerpretation, stereoscopic plotting, and
>photogrammetry equipment which are specifically designed or modified for
>military purposes, and components specifically designed or modified therefor;
>
> (b) Information Security Systems and equipment, cryptographic devices,
>software, and components specifically designed or modified therefor, including:
>
> (1) Cryptographic (including key management) systems, equipment,
>assemblies, modules, integrated circuits, components or software with the
>capability of maintaining secrecy or confidentiality of information or
>information systems, except cryptographic equipment and software as follows:
>
> (i) Restricted to decryption functions specifically designed to allow
>the execution of copy protected software, provided the decryption functions
>are not user-accessible.
>
> (ii) Specially designed, developed or modified for use in machines for
>banking or money transactions, and restricted to use only in such
>transactions. Machines for banking or money transactions include automatic
>teller machines, self-service statement printers, point of sale terminals
>or equipment for the encryption of interbanking transactions.
>
> (iii) Employing only analog techniques to provide the cryptographic
>processing that ensures information security in the following applications:
>
> (A) Fixed (defined below) band scrambling not exceeding 8 bands and in
>which the transpositions change not more frequently than once every second;
>
> (B) Fixed (defined below) band scrambling exceeding 8 bands and in
>which the transpositions change not more frequently than once every ten
>seconds;
>
> (C) Fixed (defined below) frequency inversion and in which the
>transpositions change not more frequently than once every second;
>
> (D) Facsimile equipment;
>
> (E) Restricted audience broadcast equipment;
>
> (F) Civil television equipment.
>
> Note: Special Definition. For purposes of this subparagraph, fixed
>means that the coding or compression algorithm cannot accept externally
>supplied parameters (e.g., cryptographic or key variables) and cannot be
>modified by the user.
>
> (iv) Personalized smart cards using cryptography restricted for use
>only in equipment or systems exempted from the controls of the USML.
>
> (v) Limited to access control, such as automatic teller machines,
>self-service statement printers or point of sale terminals, which protects
>password or personal identification numbers (PIN) or similar data to
>prevent unauthorized access to facilities but does not allow for encryption
>of files or text, except as directly related to the password of PIN protection.
>
> (vi) Limited to data authentication which calculates a Message
>Authentication Code (MAC) or similar result to ensure no alteration of text
>has taken place, or to authenticate users, but does not allow for
>encryption of data, text or other media other than that needed for the
>authentication.
>
> (vii) Restricted to fixed data compression or coding techniques.
>
> (viii) Limited to receiving for radio broadcast, pay television or
>similar restricted audience television of the consumer type, without
>digital encryption and where digital decryption is limited to the video,
>audio or management functions.
>
> (ix) Software designed or modified to protect against malicious
>computer damage, (e.g., viruses).
>
> Note: A procedure has been established to facilitate the expeditious
>transfer to the Commodity Control List of mass market software products
>with encryption that meet specified criteria regarding encryption for the
>privacy of data and the associated key management. Requests to transfer
>commodity jurisdiction of mass market software products designed to meet
>the specified criteria may be submitted in accordance with the commodity
>jurisdiction provisions of § 120.4. Questions regarding the specified
>criteria or the commodity jurisdiction process should be addressed to the
>Office of Defense Trade Controls. All mass market software products with
>cryptography that were previously granted transfers of commodity
>jurisdiction will remain under Department of Commerce control. Mass market
>software governed by this note is software that is generally available to
>the public by being sold from stock at retail selling points, without
>restriction, by means of over the counter transactions, mail order
>transactions, or telephone call transactions; and designed for installation
>by the user without further substantial support by the supplier.
>
> (2) Cryptographic (including key management) systems, equipment,
>assemblies, modules, integrated circuits, components or software which have
>the capability of generating spreading or hopping codes for spread spectrum
>systems or equipment.
>
> (3) Cryptanalytic systems, equipment, assemblies, modules, integrated
>circuits, components or software.
>
> (4) Systems, equipment, assemblies, modules, integrated circuits,
>components or software providing certified or certifiable multi-level
>security or user isolation exceeding class B2 of the Trusted Computer
>System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) and software to certify such systems,
>equipment or software.
>
> (5) Ancillary equipment specifically designed or modified for
>paragraphs (b) (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) of this category;
>
> (c) Self-contained diving and underwater breathing apparatus as follows:
>
> (1) Closed and semi-closed circuits (rebreathing) apparatus;
>
> (2) Specially designed components for use in the conversion of
>open-circuit apparatus to military use; and
>
> (3) Articles exclusively designed for military use with self-contained
>diving and underwater swimming apparatus.
>
> (d) Carbon/carbon billets and preforms which are reinforced with
>continuous unidirectional tows, tapes, or woven cloths in three or more
>dimensional planes (i.e. 3D, 4D, etc.). This is exclusive of carbon/carbon
>billets and preforms where reinforcement in the third dimension is limited
>to interlocking of adjacent layers only, and carbon/carbon 3D, 4D, etc. end
>items which have not been specifically designed or modified for defense
>articles (e.g., brakes for commercial aircraft or high speed trains). Armor
>(e.g., organic, ceramic, metallic), and reactive armor which has been
>specifically designed or modified for defense articles. Structural
>materials including carbon/carbon and metal matrix composites, plate,
>forgings, castings, welding consumables and rolled and extruded shapes
>which have been specifically designed or modified for defense articles.
>
> (e) Concealment and deception equipment, including but not limited to
>special paints, decoys, and simulators and components, parts and
>accessories specifically designed or modified therefor.
>
> (f) Energy conversion devices for producing electrical energy from
>nuclear, thermal, or solar energy, or from chemical reaction which are
>specifically designed or modified for military application.
>
> (g) Chemiluminescent compounds and solid state devices specifically
>designed or modified for military application.
>
> (h) Devices embodying particle beam and electromagnetic pulse
>technology and associated components and subassemblies (e.g., ion beam
>current injectors, particle accelerators for neutral or charged particles,
>beam handling and projection equipment, beam steering, fire control, and
>pointing equipment, test and diagnostic instruments, and targets) which are
>specifically designed or modified for directed energy weapon applications.
>
> (i) Metal embrittling agents.
>
> *(j) Hardware and equipment, which has been specifically designed or
>modified for military applications, that is associated with the measurement
>or modification of system signatures for detection of defense articles.
>This includes but is not limited to signature measurement equipment;
>prediction techniques and codes; signature materials and treatments; and
>signature control design methodology.
>
> (k) Technical data (as defined in § 120.21 of this subchapter) and
>defense services (as defined in § 120.8 of this subchapter) related to the
>defense articles listed in this category. (See § 125.4 of this subchapter
>for exemptions; see also § 123.21 of this subchapter). Technical data
>directly related to the manufacture or production of any defense articles
>enumerated elsewhere in this category that are designated as Significant
>Military Equipment (SME) shall itself be designated as SME.
>Category XIV-Toxicological Agents and Equipment and Radiological Equipment
>
> *(a) Chemical agents, including but not limited to lung irritants,
>vesicants, lachrymators, tear gases (except tear gas formulations
>containing 1% or less CN or CS), sternutators and irritant smoke, and nerve
>gases and incapacitating agents. (See § 121.7.)
>
> *(b) Biological agents.
>
> *(c) Equipment for dissemination, detection, and identification of,
>and defense against, the articles in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this category.
>
> *(d) Nuclear radiation detection and measuring devices, manufactured
>to military specification.
>
> (e) Components, parts, accessories, attachments, and associated
>equipment specifically designed or modified for the articles in paragraphs
>(c) and (d) of this category.
>
> (f) Technical data (as defined in § 120.21 of this subchapter) and
>defense services (as defined in § 120.8 of this subchapter) related to the
>defense articles enumerated in paragraphs (a) through (e) of this category.
>(See § 125.4 of this subchapter for exemptions; see also § 123.21 of this
>subchapter). Technical data directly related to the manufacture or
>production of any defense articles enumerated elsewhere in this category
>that are designated as Significant Military Equipment (SME) shall itself be
>designated as SME.
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>
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