Export Compliance Policy: Definitions, Terms, and Acronyms
ITAR: International Traffic in Arms Regulations
License: License refers to a document bearing the word "license", issued by the Director Office of Defense Trade Controls, or his authorized designee, permits the export or temporary import of a specific defense article or defense service controlled by the ITAR.
This definition generally applies also to export licenses issued by the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Export Administration.
Manufacturing License Agreement (MLA): An agreement (e.g., contract) whereby a U.S. person grants a foreign person an authorization to manufacture defense articles, abroad and which involves or contemplates (a) the export of technical data or defense articles or the performance of a defense service, or (b) the use by the foreign person of technical data or defense articles previously exported by the U.S. person.
Basic Marketing Information: Information that relates to the general function, purpose, or generic system descriptions of defense articles as well as information generally available in the public domain.
Person:
Department of the Treasury - Any individual, corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, society, or joint stock company.
Department of Commerce - A corporation, partnership, limited partnership, association, company, trust, or any other kind of organization, situated, residing, or doing business in the U.S. or any foreign country, including any government or agency thereof, as well as a citizen or national of the U.S. or any foreign country.
Department of State - Person means a natural person as well as a corporation, business association, partnership, society, trust, or any other entity, organization or group, including governmental entities. If a provision of this does not refer exclusively to a foreign person or U.S. person then it refers to both.
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