Amendment to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations: United States Munitions List

Résumé

The Department of State is revising the U.S. Munitions List (USML), Category II--Artillery Projectors, Category III--Ammunition, Category VII--Tanks and Military Vehicles, and Category XVI--Nuclear Weapons Design and Test Equipment. Also, in order to provide complete coverage of an emerging technology, Category XVIII, currently "Reserved", is revised to control directed energy weapons. Categories II, III, and XVI are revised to amend the titles to provide more comprehensive coverage of items controlled in the categories. Category II is further amended for clarity, to move self-propelled guns and howitzers and their engines from Category VII (c) and (g), respectively, and to specifically identify kinetic energy weapons systems, and specifically designed production, tooling, test and evaluation equipment. Category II, is further amended to enhance the control on signature control materials currently found only in Category XIII(j). Category VII is amended to delete paragraph (c) and to amend paragraph (g) to delete the engines for self-propelled guns and howitzers and to renumber the paragraphs. The interpretations and amplifications of categories currently found elsewhere in the Inte