BIS Publishes Conforming & Clarifying EAR Changes

BIS Publishes final rule making conforming and clarifying changes to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).

These changes include making conforming changes to the EAR to ensure that destination names reflect the current destination names that are recognized by the United States Government, clarifying the removal of certain license requirements for exports, reexports, and transfers (in-country) to and within Australia and the United Kingdom, making a conforming change to reflect that Cyprus is no longer a Country Group D:5 country, and clarifying how Russia and the Russian Federation are referenced for consistency with the designation of Russia as a U.S. Arms Embargoed destinations.

The four sets of changes this final rule makes are described in section as follows:

A. Conforming changes to the Commerce Country Chart and Country Groups to ensure consistency with destinations names that are recognized by the United States Government; This rule revises only the names of the three countries; the information set forth in each of the three entries otherwise remains the same.

B. Conforming changes to the Commerce Country Chart entries for Australia and the United Kingdom;his final rule revises the entries for Australia and the United Kingdom by removing the license requirement for NS1, RS1, and MT1, as well as the footnote 3 designation, for consistency with the intended regulatory changes described in the April 19 IFR.

C. Conforming change to reflect Cyprus is no longer a Country Group D:5 country; Cyprus’s status as a proscribed destination is suspended from October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024 (see 88 FR 63016). Consistent with this change, Cyprus was effectively removed from Country Group D:5.

D. Removing obsolete references to Russia and the Russian Federation in provisions that predate the country’s addition to Country Group D:5. BIS harmonizes the arms embargo-related provisions in the EAR with the Directorate of Defense Trade Control’s (DDTC’s) regulation of arms embargoes in § 126.1 of the ITAR.

Conforming and Clarifying Changes to the Export Administration Regulations