Export Compliance Policy: Definitions, Terms, and Acronyms
The terms used to describe exports, export regulations, export law, etc. are complicated and can be difficult to understand. The following definitions provide an outline of some of the more common terms:
AECA: Arms Export Control Act
Commodity Jurisdiction: The State Department, Office of Defense Trade Controls (ODTC), will provide, upon written request, a determination whether an article or service is covered by the United States Munitions List. It may also be used for consideration of a re-designation of an article or service currently covered by the United States Munitions List (USML). Requests shall identify the article or service, and include a history of the product's design, development and use.
Defense Article: Includes any weapons, weapons system, munitions, aircraft, vessel, boat or other implement of war; any property, installation, commodity, material, equipment, supply or goods used for the purposes of furnishing military assistance or making military sales; any machinery, facility, tool, material, supply or other item necessary for the manufacture, production, processing, repair, servicing, storage, construction, transportation, operation or use of any other defense article or any component or part of any articles listed above, but shall not include merchant vessels, major combatant vessels or as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, source material, by-product material, special nuclear material, production facilities, utilization facilities, or atomic weapons or articles involving restricted data.
Defense Service: Includes any service, test, inspection, repair, training, publication or technical or other assistance or defense information used for the purpose of furnishing military assistance or FMS but does not include military education and training activities.
Exemption: Relief from the securing of an export license or other written approval from the Office of Defense Trade Controls to export defense articles or defense services.
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