State Makes Minor ITAR Changes for UK Defense Treaty Exceptions, Lebanon Policy

The State Department is amending the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) to update the marking and reporting requirements for the UK defense treaty exemption, correct syntactical and typographical errors and remove ITAR managing director as an authorized official because the position no longer exists in State. The updates are largely formatting edits that aim to conform the UK defense treaty exemption with the Australia defense trade treaty exemption, it said. The final rule removes Form DS-4048 from the indicated method of notification process and clarifies items should be marked “prior to” export. The final rule also corrects a typographical error in the ITAR export policy on Lebanon.