Statutory Debarment under the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations; Correction , 70805–70807 [2011–29470]

Update on Statutory Debarment from DDTC posted to the Federal Register.

Andrew J. Shapiro Addresses the Defense Trade Advisory Group

Andrew J. Shapiro, the Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, addressed the Defense Trade Advisory Group, known as "DTAG" about the current state of affairs in international defense trade and updates to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), United States Munitions List (USML) and the Commerce Control List (CCL) currently underway.

The full minutes of the DTAG Plenary Session should appear on the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls website shortly.

A link to the full text of Mr. Shapiro's speech may be found here.

DDTC Posts a new Industry Notice on updated D-Trade Forms

Industry Notice 11/06/2011: New Versions of PureEdge Forms, Batch Processing Schema (only Common Schema), DS-2032 and DSP-85 forms are available.

DDTC has updated its master country names and country codes list in accord with the changes in geopolitical definitions of states. This update affects all PureEdge submission forms, Batch Processing Schema, the Registration form (DS-2032), and the DSP-85 form.

To help industry prepare, the revised versions of all affected forms are now available for download and review.

As of 11/21/2011 the implementation date for the revised forms is 11/21/2011. After that date, earlier versions of the forms will be rejected at the time of submission.

To download the new versions of the forms please click here.

DDTC Issues Proposed Rule to Eliminate the DSP-53 International Import Certificate

Federal Register/ Vol. 76, No. 135/ 14 July, 2011

DDTC issues a proposed rule to eliminate the use of the International Import Certificate (IIC) known as a DSP-53.  State will require that foreign exporters requiring documentation work through the U.S. importer to obtain a DSP-61 or DSP-85 in lieu of the DSP-53.  BIS and ATF will continue to adjudicate IIC submissions under their jurisdiction.

The complete notice can be found here.

DDTC Issues Proposed Rule to Eliminate Requirement for Returning Licenses

Federal Register/Vol. 76 No. 135/ 14 July, 2011

DDTC issues a proposed rule to eliminate the requirement for returned exhausted DSP-5s to State if those licenses were issued electronically and decremented by Customs through AES electronically.  The proposed rule does not apply to DSP-61, DSP-73, DSP-84 licenses or DSP-94 authorizations.

See the complete Federal Register notice here.

DDTC Posts Minutes from July Defense Trade Advisory Group (DTAG) Meeting

Minutes from the July 7th meeting of the Defense Trade Advisory Group (DTAG) have been posted on the DDTC website.

Twitterfeeds of Note from the BIS Update

Unfortunately I didn't make it to the BIS update this year but I've been following some of the tweets sent by Doug Jacobson from his tradelawnews blog.  To follow his tweets, search for #Update2010 on twitter.  The BIS website also has some of the speeches presented at the update so far.