The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has resumed “limited operations” amid the federal government shutdown, according to the agency’s website. “Services currently available include registration renewals and licensing,” it said. “Certain support functions may remain unavailable during the lapse in government appropriations.”
The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) unveiled dozens of recommendations Oct. 10 that it said would make the U.S. arms sales process more predictable, efficient and transparent.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, said late Oct. 7 that the defense export approval process seems to be proceeding normally despite the government shutdown. Risch told Export Compliance Daily that he continues to receive a “constant flow” of arms sale notifications from the executive branch. “It hasn’t been interrupted.”
The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has restored limited access to its Defense Export Control and Compliance System (DECCS) amid the government shutdown. While DECCS users still cannot make new submissions or updates, they can view their completed submissions in read-only mode.
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Processing of most export license applications, as well as sanctions licenses, will pause during the government shutdown that began Oct. 1, although export enforcement operations and national security-related investigations will continue, the Commerce, State and Treasury departments said this week.
The Bureau of Industry and Security is rolling back a Biden-era interim final rule that increased restrictions on firearms exports, the agency said in a final rule effective Sept. 30. BIS said it decided that the rule should be “rescinded in its entirety” after hearing from U.S. firearms manufacturers that the controls “would cost them hundreds of millions of dollars per year in lost sales.”
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The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls last week released its notifications to Congress of recently proposed export licenses. The notifications, which cover licenses submitted from April through June, include exports to Germany, Ukraine, Italy, the Netherlands, the U.K., Denmark, Saudi Arabia, Australia and elsewhere.
Recent updates to the U.S. Munitions List (see 2508260011) may be causing error messages for licenses submitted in the State Department’s Defense Export Control and Compliance System, State said this week.