State Makes Minor Revisions to Jan. 2 Export Control Reform Rule

The State Department issued a final rule to edit certain text and provide conforming updates to the Jan. 2 Export Control Reform rule that transfers items from five U.S. Munitions List categories to the Commerce Control List (see 14010302). The Jan. 2 rule, effective July 1, revises USML Categories IV (Launch Vehicles, Guided Missiles, Ballistic Missiles, Rockets, Torpedoes, Bombs, and Mines), V (Explosives and Energetic Materials, Propellants, Incendiary Agents, and their Constituents), IX (Military Training Equipment), X (Personal protective equipment), and XVI (Nuclear Weapons Related Articles). The correction also removes a note on cluster munitions in the revisions to the regulations because it created confusion with existing U.S. policy, State said in the correction.