Israel’s Justice Ministry charged Israeli drone maker Aeronautics and three senior employees with violating the country’s defense export control laws, according to a Dec. 30 report from Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper. An Israeli court placed a gag order on all details relating to the case, “presumably because the buyer is a country with whom Israel has sensitive relations or that exposure of details could harm Israeli drone sales,” The Jerusalem Post said in a Dec. 29 report. Haaretz said Aeronautics has been under investigation for several years for violating export laws.
The State Department published its fall 2021 regulatory agenda, including a new mention of a final rule that will add and remove certain export controls from the U.S. Munitions List, including some emerging technologies. The rule would revise and exclude some entries on the USML that don’t “warrant inclusion,” the agency said, and also add other entries for certain critical and emerging technologies. The changes include revisions to specific paragraphs in the USML and their corresponding parts in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. The rule will also look to “limit the items categorized in USML Category XXI by updating the appropriate USML paragraph,” the agency said. The State Department plans to issue the rule in July.
The State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls recently posted a notice on the restructuring of Northrop Grumman Australia. DDTC said Northrop Grumman Integrated Defense Services and Northrop Grumman M5 Network Security are being integrated into Northrop Grumman Australia, and the agency is waiving the requirement for amendments to change the company’s approved license authorizations because of the “volume” of authorizations requiring amendments to reflect the change, DDTC said. The change is effective Jan. 1, and new license applications that identify the old names on the license and are received after Feb. 1 will be “considered for return without action for correction,” DDTC said.
The State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls recently posted a name change notice for TMD Technologies, a global supplier of microwave technologies. It also is waiving the requirement for amendments to change approved license authorizations because of the “volume” of authorizations requiring amendments to reflect the change, DDTC said. TMD Technologies will become CPI TMD Technologies. New license applications that identify the old name on the license and are received after Jan. 27 will be “considered for return without action for correction,” DDTC said.
The Commerce Department published its fall 2021 regulatory agenda for the Bureau of Industry and Security, including a new mention of an export control rule for crime-control items and a rule that would reorganize provisions of the foreign direct product rule in federal regulations.
The U.S this week imposed an arms embargo and new, broad export restrictions on Cambodia in response to government corruption and human rights abuses. The restrictions, released Dec. 8 by the Commerce and the State departments and effective Dec. 9, will apply more stringent controls on a range of dual-use and military-related exports to the country (see 2112020015).
The Commerce and State departments completed interagency reviews of final rules that would revise export controls for goods destined to Cambodia. Commerce’s rule would revise certain restrictions for Cambodia under the Export Administration Regulations, while the State Department would add Cambodia to its list of proscribed countries in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. Both agencies sent their respective rules for interagency review Nov. 16 (see 2111170014) and completed them Dec. 1.
The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls will hold a one-hour webinar Dec. 7, starting at 2 p.m. EST, on submitting amendments for licenses and registrations, the agency announced this week. The webinar will cover DDTC’s various licensing amendment forms and feature "significant time" dedicated to a question-and-answer session.
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The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls this week updated and issued a host of new guidance to address industry questions related to debarments, disclosures and export controls violations. The 17 new FAQs, published about three weeks after the agency said it was preparing new guidance at the request of the Defense Trade Advisory Group, address a range of compliance issues, among them what should be included in voluntary disclosures, how the agency treats those disclosures, how they affect licensing, and differences between a debarment rescission and reinstatement of export privileges.