The State Department has issued a final rule, effective July 17, 2007, which amends 22 CFR Part 121 of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations with respect to radiation-hardened microelectronic circuits in Category XV(d) of the U.S. Munitions List (USML).
The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a final rule, effective June 19, 2007, which amends the Export Administration Regulations at 15 CFR Parts 742, 743, 744, 748, 750 and 758 to revise and clarify U.S. licensing requirements and licensing policy on exports and reexports to China, among other things.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a final rule, effective June 19, 2007, which amends the Export Administration Regulations at 15 CFR Parts 742, 743, 744, 748, 750 and 758 to revise and clarify U.S. licensing requirements and licensing policy on exports and reexports to China, among other things.
The Journal of Commerce reports that the Transportation Security Administration is close to finishing technical specifications for "touchless" electronic readers for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential. The specifications will provide the details necessary for manufacturers to build readers that would collect information from a TWIC that is held close to the device. The TSA plans to test the readers at ports to control access in secure areas once it has enough enrolled TWIC holders to test. (JoC, dated 06/18/07, www.joc.com)
The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a final rule, effective June 19, 2007, which amends the Export Administration Regulations at 15 CFR Parts 742, 743, 744, 748, 750 and 758 to revise and clarify U.S. licensing requirements and licensing policy on exports and reexports to China, among other things.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a final rule, effective June 19, 2007, which amends the Export Administration Regulations at 15 CFR Parts 742, 743, 744, 748, 750 and 758 to revise and clarify U.S. licensing requirements and licensing policy on exports and reexports to China, among other things.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a final rule1 which corrects errors contained in its March 22, 2007 correction of the April 24, 2006 final rule that implemented the new formula for calculating computer performance from Composite Theoretical Performance (CTP) measured in Millions of Theoretical Operations Per Second (MTOPS) to Adjusted Peak Performance (APP) measured in Weighted TeraFLOPS (Trillion Floating point Operations Per Second) (WT).
The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a final rule, effective May 7, 2007, which amends the Commerce Control List at 15 CFR Part 774 to reflect changes to the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Annex that were agreed to by MTCR member countries at the October 2006 Plenary.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a final rule, effective April 24, 2007, which amends the Export Administration Regulations by making a technical correction to the contact information for the Drug Enforcement Administration, and by making corrections inadvertently omitted in three rules previously published in the Federal Register.
The Journal of Commerce reports that approximately 30,000 chemical substances are covered by the European Union's (EU's) new regulations known as REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals), which will be phased in beginning June 2007. The article notes that unlike some other regulations, the rules of REACH are based on the substance used in each product, not its end use. See future issues of ITT for additional details on REACH. (JoC, dated 03/19/07, www.joc.com.)