30-Jun-09 11:00 AM EST

State/DDTC Posts Notice of DTAG’s New Priorities

The U.S. Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (State/DDTC) has posted a notice on its website listing the following topics as new priorities for State/DDTC’s Defense Trade Advisory Group (DTAG):

· USML revision

· Update of additional terms (e.g. brokering) as DDTC releases guidance.

· Review of ITAR for reassessment of SME classification

· Reexamination and update of exemptions

- Return of foreign parts–exemption for repair and return

- Exemption for personal protective gear

- Increased value of exemption for components and spare parts (currently $500)

- Use of 123.16(b)(1)) – allow or eliminate

- Exemption for exports to U.S. forces worldwide (§126.4) and other DoD exemptions to the ITAR

- Intelligence agencies’ use of exemptions

- Exemption for parts and components not specifically identified on the USML to a U.S. exporter’s foreign affiliates to facilitate a repair or incorporation into defense articles that are manufactured by the foreign affiliates.

- Expansion of ITAR 125.4(b)(9) to explicitly include data hand-carried by US persons overseas

- Expansion of University employee exemption to include provision of unclassified defense services (tech data exemption virtually meaningless as University employees work collaboratively)

- An exemption for FFRDCs and possibly UARCs for the work that is directed by their US Government sponsors.

- Removal of USML Cat 1 and Cat 3 to Commerce Dept, except for automatic firearms and foreign military and law enforcement sales.

- Review of ITAR 124.13(5) requirement for a foreign party to return or destroy technical data they received under an Offshore Procurement DSP-5. The same requirement isn't mentioned in the ITAR for expiring agreements.

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Source: PMDDTC
http://www.pmddtc.state.gov/