Implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement List of Dual-Use Items: Revisions to the Commerce Control List and Reporting Under the Wassenaar Arrangement

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

15 CFR Parts 732, 740, 742, 743, 744, 746, 762 and 774

[Docket No. 971006239-7239-01]

RIN 0694-AB35

Implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement List of Dual-Use

Items: Revisions to the Commerce Control List and Reporting Under the

Wassenaar Arrangement

AGENCY: Bureau of Export Administration, Commerce.

ACTION: Interim final rule; conforming saving clause dates.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) is conforming the

dates identified in the savings clause of the interim rule implementing

the Wassenaar Arrangement published in the Federal Register on January

15, 1998 (63 FR 2452). Shipments of items removed from eligibility for

export or reexport under a particular License Exception authorization

or the designator NLR may now be exported or reexported under that

License Exception authorization or designator until (and including)

April 15, 1998. This action should minimize industry's concerns about

implementing the new licensing requirement provisions of the interim

rule by the original date of February 17, 1998. Note that this rule

does not affect the reporting requirements of Section 743.1 of the

Export Administration Regulations, and any item removed from License

Exception or NLR eligibility as a result of the January 15 rule may be

subject to reporting requirements. As this rule conforms the saving

clause dates, the April 15 date concerning submission of license

applications identifying the new Export Control Classification Numbers

(ECCNs) as a result of revisions to the numbering and structure of

certain entries on the

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Commerce Control List remains unchanged.

DATES: This correction is effective February 17, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Muldonian, Office of Exporter

Services, Regulatory Policy Division, Bureau of Export Administration,

telephone: (202) 482-2440.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 15, 1998, the Bureau of Export

Administration published in the Federal Register an interim rule that

made changes to the Commerce Control List necessary to implement the

Wassenaar Arrangement List of Dual-Use Items. The rule also removed

License Exception availability for certain items controlled for missile

technology reasons and for certain other items controlled for national

security reasons for which the U.S. has agreed to license with extreme

vigilance.

BXA has received many industry comments on the date of February 17,

1998, for submission of license applications for items removed from

eligibility for export or reexport under a particular License Exception

authorization or the designator NLR, stating that more time is required

to determine how the rule affected their products and to develop and

revise export compliance software necessary to implement the provisions

of the Export Administration Regulations. To ensure that industry has

adequate time to review and implement the changes to the EAR published

on January 15, BXA is conforming the saving clause dates identified in

the January 15 interim rule implementing the Wassenaar Arrangement.

Shipments of items removed from eligibility for export or reexport

under a particular License Exception authorization or NLR as a result

of the January 15 rule may now be exported or reexported under that

License Exception authorization or NLR until (and including) April 15,

1998. Note that this rule does not affect the reporting requirements of

Section 743.1 of the Export Administration Regulations, and any item

removed from License Exception or NLR eligibility as a result of the

January 15 rule may be subject to reporting requirements. The April 15,

1998 date concerning submission of license applications identifying the

new Export Control Classification Numbers (ECCNs) as a result of

revisions to the numbering and structure of certain entries on the

Commerce Control List is not changed by this rule.

Therefore, in rule FR Doc. 98-1, published on January 15, 1998 (63

FR 2452), on page 2454, in the third column, in the Saving Clause

paragraph, last line, ``February 17, 1998'' is revised to read ``April

15, 1998''.

Dated: February 11, 1998.

William V. Skidmore,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.

[FR Doc. 98-3905 Filed 2-13-98; 8:45 am]

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