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This is your gateway to U.S. and foreign government web sites containing information on defense trade and defense-related sales. The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) provides these links for your convenience. The U.S. government permits the sale of U.S.-manufactured defense-related items, services, and technologies under strictly regulated circumstances that require an export license to all or most destinations. (Among the exceptions to this policy are sales to nations subject to U.S. sanctions for foreign policy or national security reasons [see further information on sanctions below].) All such sales are subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations (see further information on export controls below). The Department of Commerce and BIS do not, through the publication of this list, advocate any particular sale of any particular defense-related item, service, and technology to any one of the nations represented by the web sites to which linkages are provided.
This web page links only to other government sites in compliance with BIS’s Web site policy. The sites to which this page links are not in any respect controlled by the Department of Commerce or BIS, and so the Department and BIS can guarantee neither their accuracy and validity nor their consistency with or adherence to federal law or U.S. Government, Department of Commerce, or BIS policy.
Review Export Control Responsibilities
The U.S. Government controls the export of defense (sometimes called "munitions") items, services, and technologies and "dual-use" items, services, and technologies (which have legitimate commercial applications but can be critical to the manufacture or use of conventional weapons or the development of weapons of mass destruction). U.S. exporters are responsible for compliance with the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) governing these exports that are issued by the U. S. State Department (for defense/munitions items, services, and technologies), and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) that are issued by the U. S. Department of Commerce/BIS (for dual-use items, services, and technologies). In addition, exports from the United States may be subject to other regulations including those administered by the Department of Energy (nuclear technology), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (nuclear equipment and materials), and the Department of the Treasury (embargoes).
Information on U.S. dual-use export controls can be found in the licensing section of this Web site.
Information on all other U.S. Government export controls and the agencies that hold various export control responsibilities can be found on our Resource Links page.
The U.S. Commerce, State, and Treasury Departments administer and enforce economic and trade sanctions against targeted foreign countries, terrorist sponsoring organizations and international narcotics traffickers based on U.S. foreign policy and national security goals. U.S. exporters are responsible for compliance with these sanctions.
Go to the current State Department Embargo Reference Chart.
